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A
court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim
Ishag to death by hanging for getting married to a Christian. She was
charged for adultery and apostasy; which is known in Sudan as abandoning
ones religion for another, and considered to be a crime.
Meriam
who was also sentenced to 100 lashes of cane, got married to a man from
a Christian home and an indigene of South Sudan. She was found guilty
of adultery because a marriage between a Muslim and a Christian is
illegal in Sudan
“Sudan
has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law. It
rules that apostasy - the abandonment of one's religious faith - is a
crime”.
Western
embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the
pregnant woman to choose her religion”. BBC stated on their site.
The
woman who Amnesty International said bears a Muslim name, Meriam Yehya
Ibrahim Ishag, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's
religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her
childhood.
During the hearing, she calmly told the judge: "I am........
