Pregnant Sudanese woman faces death by hanging for refusing to recant Christianity
A judge in Khartoum convicted 26-year-old Meriam Ibrahim of apostasy for practicing Christianity and marrying a Christian man. According to the country’s laws, children must follow their father’s faith—and Ibrahim’s dad was a Muslim.
A pregnant woman is facing the gallows for her faith.
Meriam Ibrahim, a 26-year-old Sudanese woman who is the daughter of a Muslim father and an Orthodox Christian mother, was sentenced to death on Thursday for refusing to deny that she was Christian.
Judge Abbas Khalifa convicted Ibrahim of “apostasy”—abandoning her faith—on Sunday, but gave her until Thursday to change her mind. When the grace period expired, he handed down the chilling penalty of death by hanging.
"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, according to Al Jazeera.
As in several conservative Muslim countries, apostasy is a crime in Sudan. The country's Shariah laws require children to follow their father’s religion. Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, although men are allowed to married outside their faith.
Ibrahim says she was raised as a Christian by her Ethiopian mother after her Muslim dad abandoned the family. She married a Christian man, Daniel Wani, who her lawyers say has U.S. citizenship.
Her paternal relatives began complaining to the authorities in August about the relationship. The family claimed she was born “Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah” and had changed her name.
In court, the woman refused to acknowledge the judge when he called her by the Muslim name.
"I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy," she said from a caged dock during her trial, the BBC reports.
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