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Convicted of adultery and apostasy, Sudanese Christian doctor will give birth to her second child this month.
Mother's Day was not a happy day for Meriam Yahia Ibrahim. While her second child is almost due, the 27-year-old Sudanese doctor now faces execution for marrying a Christian.
Ibrahim has been imprisoned, along with her 20-month-old son, in Khartoum since February. She is married to a South Sudanese Christian with U.S. citizenship—Daniel Wani—but because her father was a Muslim, the state does not recognize her marriage and charged her with adultery and apostasy in March. Morning Star News (MSN) has chronicled her case.
On Sunday [March 11], Ibrahim drew a fresh round of activist attention after a court convicted and sentenced her to death. MSN has the details. Middle East Concern reports that "there is no known precedent for such a verdict and sentence being issued by a Sudanese court against a follower of Jesus in recent times."
Ibrahim's case represents the increasing Islamization of Sudan ever since the 2011 secession of predominantly Christian South Sudan. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has made it clear that Sudan's political stance going forward is a "100 per cent Islamic constitution, without communism or secularism or Western [influences]."
The children of a Muslim father are automatically considered to be Muslims in Sudan, even though Ibrahim said she never practiced Islam. Her Muslim father left the family when she was six years old, and she was raised by her Christian mother.
Ibrahim was convicted by the El Haj Yousif Public Order Court of both crimes, and could be given 100 lashes for adultery and then put to death for apostasy soon after her baby is born later this month, according to human rights workers. The court implied that her sentence could be
Convicted of adultery and apostasy, Sudanese Christian doctor will give birth to her second child this month.
Mother's Day was not a happy day for Meriam Yahia Ibrahim. While her second child is almost due, the 27-year-old Sudanese doctor now faces execution for marrying a Christian.
Ibrahim has been imprisoned, along with her 20-month-old son, in Khartoum since February. She is married to a South Sudanese Christian with U.S. citizenship—Daniel Wani—but because her father was a Muslim, the state does not recognize her marriage and charged her with adultery and apostasy in March. Morning Star News (MSN) has chronicled her case.
On Sunday [March 11], Ibrahim drew a fresh round of activist attention after a court convicted and sentenced her to death. MSN has the details. Middle East Concern reports that "there is no known precedent for such a verdict and sentence being issued by a Sudanese court against a follower of Jesus in recent times."
Ibrahim's case represents the increasing Islamization of Sudan ever since the 2011 secession of predominantly Christian South Sudan. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has made it clear that Sudan's political stance going forward is a "100 per cent Islamic constitution, without communism or secularism or Western [influences]."
The children of a Muslim father are automatically considered to be Muslims in Sudan, even though Ibrahim said she never practiced Islam. Her Muslim father left the family when she was six years old, and she was raised by her Christian mother.
Ibrahim was convicted by the El Haj Yousif Public Order Court of both crimes, and could be given 100 lashes for adultery and then put to death for apostasy soon after her baby is born later this month, according to human rights workers. The court implied that her sentence could be
