[net-gold] COUNTRIES: SUDAN : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS : RELIGION: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: In Sudan a Pregnant Woman May Be Hanged for Marrying a Christian
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- Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 13:47:53 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: SUDAN :
LAW: CASE: DECISIONS :
RELIGION: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE:
In Sudan a Pregnant Woman May Be Hanged for Marrying a Christian
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In Sudan a Pregnant Woman May Be Hanged for Marrying a Christian
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With an indicted war criminal for a president, a decades-long record of
conflict in the south that cost two million lives, and a continuing
genocidal conflict in Darfur in the west, Sudan, it seems, could do
nothing at this point that would shock. Yet, this week it did. Even
against the backdrop of the news of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by
Boko Haram, it managed to shock the world's conscience once again, with
the case of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim.
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Ibrahim is a 27 year old Sudanese mother now eight-months pregnant with
her second child, the wife of a naturalized American citizen from South
Sudan, and a medical school graduate. She is also a condemned prisoner on
death row in Khartoum.
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On Thursday, the Sudanese Public Order Court affirmed that Ibrahim is to
be sentenced to 100 lashes of the whip and then to death by hanging.
Under Sudan's application of sharia law, the former punishment is for
adultery due to the fact that she is a Muslim woman married to a Christian
man, a marriage considered invalid, and the latter, somewhat
contradictorily, for having left Islam to become a Christian, which is a
capital crime. Her husband, Daniel Wani, has not been charged with
adultery.
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Ibrahim attested that she was raised as a Christian by her single mother,
an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, and never practiced Islam. Witnesses on
her behalf were barred from testifying because they were Christian, though
she produced a marriage certificate identifying her as a Christian.
Nevertheless, the judge determined that because her father was a Muslim,
even though he abandoned the family when she was six, she too was a Muslim
who left Islam. It gave her several days to recant her Christian faith
but she refused, firmly telling the court,"I am a Christian and I will
remain a Christian."
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The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover
from childbirth and to wean the new baby. Her lawyer, Mohamed Jar Elnabi,
a Muslim, has received death threats for defending her but is planning to
go forward with an appeal. Meanwhile, her one-and-a-half year old son,
Martin, who is an American citizen, has been imprisoned with her. Both
mother and child have been struggling with illnesses contracted in the
deplorable conditions of Omdurman Federal Women's Prison.
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No one is known to have been executed for apostasy in Sudan since 1991,
when it was made a capital crime. But Bashir's government is becoming
ever more extreme. USCIRF has found that in the last two years "the number
and severity of harsh Shari'ah-based judicial decisions has increased,
including sentences of amputation for theft and sentences for stoning for
adultery." The government is now vowing to draft the new constitution as
a sharia one, according to its own strict interpretation. At the beginning
of this month, Sudanese Catholic Bishop Macram Gassis reported that
Sudan's air force deliberately bombed the world-acclaimed Mother of Mercy
Hospital, the only hospital in the country's Nuba Mountains, leaving
several peope with shrapnel wounds. These are troubling signs of the
government's further Talibanization of Sudan.
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This week the United States joined with Canada, the United Kingdom, and
the Netherlands to express concern over the apostasy ruling against
Ibrahim, and there was a good diplomatic presence at her hearing on
Thursday. Such international pressure must be sustained if Ibrahim is to
have a chance.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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