{{A Sudanese woman awaiting the death penalty for abandoning her religious faith has given birth in jail near the capital, Khartoum, her lawyer has said.}}<\/p>\n
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag married a Christian man and was sentenced to hang for apostasy earlier this month after refusing to renounce Christianity.<\/p>\n
She is allowed to nurse her baby girl for two years before the sentence is carried out.<\/p>\n
Born to a Muslim father, she was convicted by a Sharia court.<\/p>\n
Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.<\/p>\n
{{Hundred lashes}}<\/p>\n
Ms Ibrahim was also convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Sudan’s version of Islamic law, which says Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims.<\/p>\n
For this the judge sentenced her to 100 lashes, which will reportedly be carried out when she has recovered from giving birth.<\/p>\n
Ms Ibrahim was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother’s religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.<\/p>\n
According to Amnesty International, she was arrested and charged with adultery in August 2013, and the court added the charge of apostasy in February 2014 when she said she was a Christian and not a Muslim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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