A Sudanese court who gave a
27-year-old pregnant until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted
Christian faith and return to Islam has been slammed with a death
sentence. The judge said at the ruling “We gave you three days to recant
but you insist on not returning
to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death, According to Daily Mail,
on March 4th,Mariam Yahya Ibrahim who is eight-months was charged with
apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something
prohibited for Muslim women to do and which makes the marriage void.A
relative had turned her in to the police. According to the Sudan’s Public Order
Criminal Code,Meriam is a Muslim by default because she was born in
Sudan.Thus, her marriage to a Christian is a criminal act . On February
7, 2014, Meriam was arrested, with her 20-month-old son, and put in a
women’s prison. She had not been charged nor did she receive a fair
trial. The adultery charge came with a punishment of 100 lashes.The
apostasy charge came with a punishment of death.
As it stands, Meriam
will be put to death following the birth of her second child. Meriam’s
husband, Daniel, is not allowed to care for their child, Martin, because he is a Christian. Therefore, Martin, almost two years old, is in prison with his mother. Daniel is not allowed to visit or see his son.
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