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31 May 2014, 8:08 am

Very depressing.


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31 May 2014, 8:36 am

She gave birth to her baby:

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02 Jun 2014, 9:48 am

Wish I could have cited this when I signed a petition against Meriam Ibrahim's conviction:

Hassan bin Talal wrote:
First, the fact that Ibrahim has been sentenced to death by a lower court, whose ruling has no standing in federal matters, has been largely ignored. The interim constitution of Sudan, drafted in 2005, explicitly permits freedom of religion in Sudan. Article 38 of the constitution, which deals with freedom of creed and worship, states that "every person shall have the right to the freedom of religious creed and worship ? and no person shall be coerced to accept a faith that she or he does not believe in".

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/meriam-ibrahim-case-state-islam-apostasy-sudan

From another article (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/meriam-ibrahim-secular-sudan-apostasy-christian-muslim):
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In Sudan last month, Ibrahim told the court that she was the daughter of a Sudanese Muslim man and an Ethiopian Christian woman. According to Sudanese law, that made her a Muslim. .... In Sudan, marriage between a Muslim and a Christian is forbidden.

So why wasn't the father indicted? Has the law changed since he married Ibrahim's mother? Or is it legal for a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman, but not vice versa?



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02 Jun 2014, 10:55 am

Gromit wrote:
Wish I could have cited this when I signed a petition against Meriam Ibrahim's conviction:
Hassan bin Talal wrote:
First, the fact that Ibrahim has been sentenced to death by a lower court, whose ruling has no standing in federal matters, has been largely ignored. The interim constitution of Sudan, drafted in 2005, explicitly permits freedom of religion in Sudan. Article 38 of the constitution, which deals with freedom of creed and worship, states that "every person shall have the right to the freedom of religious creed and worship ? and no person shall be coerced to accept a faith that she or he does not believe in".

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/meriam-ibrahim-case-state-islam-apostasy-sudan

From another article (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/meriam-ibrahim-secular-sudan-apostasy-christian-muslim):
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In Sudan last month, Ibrahim told the court that she was the daughter of a Sudanese Muslim man and an Ethiopian Christian woman. According to Sudanese law, that made her a Muslim. .... In Sudan, marriage between a Muslim and a Christian is forbidden.

So why wasn't the father indicted? Has the law changed since he married Ibrahim's mother? Or is it legal for a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman, but not vice versa?


While such a marriage is forbidden under any circumstances without the Christian converting the Islam in that country, a woman has so much less rights, and is seen as so much less a person. Hence, she is more likely to suffer the repercussions than her father was.


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02 Jun 2014, 11:30 am

Huffington Post

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Hopes for a Sudanese Christian mother sentenced to hang for apostasy have been dashed as Sudan's government has denied it is set to release her, claiming a foreign ministry official had been taken out of context.

Meriam Ibrahim, who was pregnant when she was sentenced to death on May 15 and reportedly gave birth to a baby girl with her feet in shackles, had been told she would be "freed within days".

Her case has caused an international furore, with David Cameron denouncing the "barbaric" nature of sentence.


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Ibrahim will be allowed to nurse her baby girl for two years before she is killed, if the sentence is carried out. Wani, who is wheelchair-bound and suffers from muscular dystrophy, is not even allowed to care for the couple's 20-month-old Martin because he is a Christian and his son is considered a Muslim, and the child is imprisoned with his mother.