A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to death by hanging for apostasy after she left Islam and married a Christian man.
“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, AFP reports.Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion.
Local media report the sentence would not be carried out for two years after she has given birth.
The BBC reports that Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law. It rules that apostasy – the abandonment of one’s religious faith – is a crime.
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.
Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes, AFP reports.
Then she calmly told the judge: “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”
Amnesty International said the woman, Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother’s religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.
In court, the judge addressed her by her Muslim name, Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah.
She was 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.
What do you think about the judgment? Does she deserve to be hanged?
Do we need more proof that Islam is a shitty religion?? She doesn't deserve any form of punishment leave alone hanging cz human beings have free will of choosing who or what to believe in...shame on Sudan, shame on tht judiciary and shame on Islam as a whole for prescribing this barbarism.
ReplyDeleteIf she's a true believer in Christianity, should she fear death? Does she not believe in miracles? If she has any faith in God whatsoever she'll accept what has been ordained by God. Does a person blame the automobile maker everytime there's a car crash? Why blame the religion of Sudan?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Jesus will save her from the hangman since she converted to Christianity, the judge gave her a choice to recant but she didn't, she knew the punishment of apostasy was death, just like the death penalty in America, no one blames Christianity everytime a person dies on deathrow in America, but there's a crucifix and priest at every execution in America. The African slaves in America were murdered for not accepting Christianity and Telling the slave master they were Muslims, what's the difference ?
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