HUFFINGTON POST
by Charlotte Alfred
May 27, 2014
A 27-year-old Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for “apostasy” two weeks ago has given birth to a baby girl in prison, her lawyers announced on Tuesday.
A Sudanese court condemned Meriam Yehya Ibrahim [a physician] to death by hanging earlier this month after the pregnant woman refused to renounce her Christian faith.
According to the Guardian, Ibrahim’s daughter was born overnight in the Khartoum hospital clinic, a month before the due date. The newspaper said that the health conditions of mother and child remained unclear, as Ibrahim’s lawyer and husband have not been allowed to see her.
When Ibrahim’s husband Daniel Wani visited his wife in prison last week he found the expectant mother shackled in her cell, Fox News reported. Wani, who is a U.S. citizen and uses a wheelchair, is reportedly heavily dependent on his wife. The couple’s other child, a 20-month-old boy, currently lives with his mother in prison.
Ibrahim was arrested in August after Muslim relatives charged her with adultery for marrying a Christian man, Bloomberg news explained. The apostasy charge was added after Ibrahim said she, too, was Christian.

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