{"id":14482,"date":"2014-05-19T03:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sudan-woman-faces-death-for-apostasy\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T03:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:10:15","slug":"sudan-woman-faces-death-for-apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sudan-woman-faces-death-for-apostasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Woman Faces Death for Apostasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy – the abandonment of her religious faith – after she married a Christian man.}}<\/p>\n

Amnesty International condemned the sentence, handed down by a judge in Khartoum, as “appalling and abhorrent”.<\/p>\n

Local media report the sentence on the woman, who is pregnant, would not be carried out for two years after she had given birth.<\/p>\n

Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.<\/p>\n

“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” the judge told the woman, media reported.<\/p>\n

Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion. <\/p>\n

The judge also sentenced the woman to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery – because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.<\/p>\n

This will reportedly be carried out when she has recovered from giving birth.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes, media reports. <\/p>\n

Then she calmly told the judge: “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”<\/p>\n

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