According to AFP a Sudanese
pregnant woman of 27 year old Sudanese Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced
to death by hanging by a Sudanese court for apostasy, (that is, renouncing ones
faith or religion) after marrying a Christian man
Mariam,
whose father is Muslim but raised orthodox Christian by her mother, was earlier
sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday May 11th but was given till today May
15th to have a rethink and convert back to Islam before the verdict would be
enforced. However during a court appearance today, Mariam maintained that she's
a Christian and there's no going back.
"We gave you
three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you
to be hanged to death." Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told the woman in
court today,
Khalifa also sentenced Ishag to 100 lashes for "adultery".
Khalifa also sentenced Ishag to 100 lashes for "adultery".
“I am a
Christian and I never committed apostasy,” she said in court.
Defending
the judgement of the Sudanese judge, Ahmed Bilal Osman, Sudan's information Minister,
said such judgement is not only delivered in Sudan but also in other Islamic
countries
"It's not only
Sudan. In Saudi Arabia, in all the Muslim countries, it is not allowed at all
for a Muslim to change his/her religion." he told AFP
The death sentence will reportedly be carried out after Ibrahim gives birth
1 comment:
I pray by the time she delivers whoever that has set that law will be dead ,what rubbish.In this life nobody has a right to condemn once faith
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