{{The Sudanese foreign ministry denied a statement attributed to its Undersecretary Abdallah Alazrag in which he announced that the government will seek to free a woman sentenced to death for apostasy within the next few days.}}<\/p>\n
“The lady will be freed within days in line with legal procedure that will be taken by the judiciary and the ministry of justice,” Alazrag told press.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe will definitely not be executed. I am sure about this,\u201d he to media today.<\/p>\n
The Sudanese diplomat made similar statements to BBC and Reuters. <\/p>\n
Alazrag, who was Khartoum\u2019s ex-ambassador to London, has been staying in Britain for some time seeking medical treatment.<\/p>\n
He did not specify how the 27-year-old Meriam Yehya Ibrahim would be released despite a court conviction which a lawyer told local media can only be overturned by appeals court or a clemency issued by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.<\/p>\n
In a statement to CNN, Sudan\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson Abu Bakr al-Sideeg, said he was unaware of any plans to release Ibrahim \u201cbefore a ruling from an appeals court\u201d.<\/p>\n
The court convicted Ibrahim, who is in custody with her 20-month-old son and her newborn baby, of the charges on May 11th and gave her three days to return to Islam.<\/p>\n
The judge also sentenced Ibrahim to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery as under Sudan\u2019s Islamic Shar\u2019ia law her marriage to a non-Muslim is considered invalid and therefore an adulterous relationship.<\/p>\n
The ruling drew widespread condemnation by Western governments and human right groups.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim\u2019s lawyer Elshareef Ali Elshareef Mohammed told UK-based Channel 4 News today that she is currently being held in the hospital ward of a prison that is overcrowded and “not a proper place” for a new mother. Ibrahim gave birth to her baby daughter this week with her feet chained together, he added.<\/p>\n
He further stressed said that any decision to release her would have to be made by an appeal court, not a government official, and that it would take months, rather than days, to process the appeal.<\/p>\n
He accused Alazrag of making false statements to pacify the media and fend off international pressure.<\/p>\n
“One person in the UK (Alazrag) saw the UK media, and wanted to stop the campaign (for her release),” the lawyer said.<\/p>\n
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