A 27-year-old woman, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, has been sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy by a Khartoum court. That fact, plus her marital and family status (pregnant mother with a 20-month-old child and a Christian
Meriam Ibrahim, 26, was sentenced Thursday after being convicted of apostasy. The court in Khartoum ruled that Ibrahim must give birth and nurse her baby before being executed, but must receive 100 lashes immediately after having her baby for adultery
Meriam Yehya isn't dead yet, but, according to the BBC, she's received a sentence of lashing and then hanging from a Sudanese court. Her crime: apostasy. You know by now what that means. She's supposedly a Muslim who
It is a commonly held belief that Islamic law dictates the death penalty as an absolute punishment for apostasy. However, this reading of the Islamic Tradition relies on restricting the role of the Prophet Muhammad to that of a religious figure issuing
Meriam was charged with adultery and apostasy, which is defined as the “abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.” She is considered a Muslim by default solely because she was born in Sudan, however, she