Posted by: Channels Television Posted date: June 01, 2014 In: Africa | comment : 0
Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith.
Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in custody, would be freed in a few days.
Abdullahi Alzareg, an Under-Secretary at the country’s foreign ministry, said that Sudan guarantees religious freedom and is committed to protecting the woman.
This comes as the United Kingdom asked Sudan to lift what it described as the “barbaric” death sentence handed down to a Christian woman accused of abandoning Islam.
A Sudanese court ruled that Mrs Ibrahim, who was raised by her Christian mother and married to a Christian, was Muslim because her father was of the Islamic faith, a line of thought which she rejects.
Culled from Channels TV
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