An eight-month pregnant Sudanese woman was sentenced to death on Thursday, after she was convicted of “apostasy” for marrying a Christian man, according to judicial officials and human rights campaigners.
The court in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum also ordered that Meriam Ibrahim be given 100 lashes for committing zena — meaning illegitimate sex in Arabic — for having sexual relations with a non-Muslim man.
Muslim women in the conservative country are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father's religion.
As Ibrahim's husband is not Muslim, their three-year-long marriage is not recognised under Sudanese law.
The 26-year-old doctor, whose father was Muslim but was raised as a Christian by her mother, was convicted on Sunday and granted a four day grace period in which to recant her religion, repent and potentially be saved from death.
She was sentenced after that grace period expired, the officials said on a condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
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