Washington, May 15 (IANS) A 27-year-old Sudanese woman was Thursday facing death sentence if she refused to re**unce her Christian religion. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim was convicted by a Khartoum court this week of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, Amnesty International said Wednesday, a day before the expected ruling. She is eight months pregnant and currently in custody with her 20-month-old son, according to Amnesty International. \"The fact that a woman could be sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion, is abhorrent and should never be even considered,\" Manar Idriss, Amnesty International's Sudan researcher, said in a statement.
05-20-2014, 09:30 PM
Christian woman faces death in Sudan for her faith
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