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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Good News! : Woman Put On Deathrow For Apostasy, To Be Released
The 27 year old who recently gave birth in jail, was sentenced to death after marrying a Christian, but would now be released within a few days.
A senior Khartoum official told the BBC this today, following worldwide protests about her treatment.. According to him, Sudan guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman
Ms Ibrahim, 27, was brought up as an Orthodox Christian, but a Sudanese judge ruled earlier this
month that she should be regarded as Muslim because that had been her father's faith. She refused to renounce her Christianity and was sentenced to death by hanging for apostasy.
On Wednesday, she gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell - the second child from her marriage in 2011 to Daniel Wani, a US citizen.
The court said Ms Ibrahim would only be allowed to nurse her baby for two years before the sentence was carried out. They had also earlier annulled her Christian marriage and sentenced her to 100 lashes for adultery because the union was not considered valid under Islamic law.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population and Islamic law has been in force there since the 1980s.
The ruling has revived a debate over apostasy, with liberal and conservative scholars giving different opinions over whether and how the act of abandoning the Islamic faith should be punished.
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