SUDANESE WOMAN WHO IS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AND A DOCTOR TO BE FLOGGED BY MUSLIM AUTHORITIES FOR MARRYING A CHRISTIAN

UPDATE - JUDGE REJECTS APPEALS FOR CLEMENCY AND SENTENCES THIS WOMAN TO BE HANGED.

BREIBART - Rejecting appeals for clemency by Western human rights activists, a judge in Sudan sentenced a 27-year-old pregnant Christian mother to death for "apostasy".

Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, brought her punishment of death upon herself, said Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa: "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam."  "I sentence you to be hanged to death." For good measure, Judge Khalifa ordered the woman to be beaten with 100 lashes of the whip before being hung for "adultery."

Mariam and husband - Daily Mail photo

Ishag appeared to take the verdict in stride when read her sentence in a Khartoum courtroom. Before sentencing was pronounced, an Islamic religious leader allegedly spoke with Ishag in the caged dock trying again to “talk her out” of her “apostasy.”  According to witnesses, the condemned woman, rose calmly but firmly to proclaim to the judge and to the world: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."

After the verdict, about 50 people demonstrated against the decision.  "No to executing Mariam," said one of their signs, while another proclaimed: "Religious rights are a constitutional right."  In a speech, one demonstrator said they would continue their activism with sit-ins and protests until she is freed.  "The details of this case expose the regime's blatant interference in the personal life of Sudanese citizens," proclaimed a Sudanese youth group called Sudan Change Now Movement in a statement on Wednesday.

Sudan’s information minister, Ahmed Bilal Osman, defended the death sentence for leaving Islam. "It's not only Sudan. In Saudi Arabia, in all the Muslim countries,” he sayd, “It is not allowed at all for a Muslim to change his religion."

Link to this update

 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/15/I-sentence-you-to-hang-Declares-Sudanese-Judge-to-27-Year-old-Pregnant-woman-Her-Crime-Becoming-a-Christian

Also see updated May 30 report with picture of mother and baby here:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/mariam-ibrahim-in-jail-photos-of.html

All reports on Mariam Ibrahim on this blog

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Africa%20-%20Sudan%20-%20Meriam%20Ibrahim

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Previous report by Daily Mail 

Christian mother pregnant with her second child has been formally convicted of adultery and apostasy (deserting religion)

The crimes are punishable by 100 lashes and death

Having been born in Sudan, Ibrahim is considered a Muslim by birth, making her marriage to Wani, a non-Muslim, illegal

The punishment will be carried out after her child in born who will then be given to the father to look after

Read more
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2628895/Sudanese-woman-eight-months-pregnant-flogged-death-unless-she.html

Reaction to judge's decision
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2628895/Sudanese-woman-eight-months-pregnant-flogged-death-unless-she.html


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