A 27-year-old woman, who is
eight months pregnant, has been sentenced to death in Sudan for converting to
Christianity from Islam, sparking protests in a country already riddled with
social strife.
Mariam
Yahya Ibrahim had been ordered to give up her newly-adopted Christian faith by
Thursday and return to Islam. Judge
Abbas Khalifa asked Ibrahim whether she agreed to return to Islam. After she
said, "I am a Christian," a charge of apostasy was declared and the
death sentence was handed down, according to judicial sources, quoted by
Reuters. "We gave you three
days to recant, but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be
hanged to death," the judge told the woman, AFP reported. The woman had also been charged with adultery for
marrying a Christian man. Amnesty
International immediately condemned the sentence, calling it
"abhorrent." The organisation said the woman was raised as an Orthodox
Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly
absent during her childhood. Source
( AFP)
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