Tag: Apostasy

Egyptian convert still in jail having served his time

June 22, 2015 Egypt Apostasy, Converts, Egypt, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Mohammed Hegazy

Having spent most of his adult life either harassed, in hiding, or in jail, former Muslim now Christian Mohamed Hegazy can expect more of the same. Hegazy, who has been in prison since December 2, 2013, is known to be the first Egyptian to openly seek a change from Muslim . . . Read More

Bureaucratic delays put Egyptian convert’s appeal at risk

January 29, 2015 Egypt Apostasy, Blasphemy, Egypt, Mohammed Hegazy

After weeks of judicial runaround, Egyptian lawyer Karam Ghobrial has managed to find and visit his client, Egypt’s most publicly-known Christian convert Mohammed Hegazy, in Cairo’s Tora Prison. The whereabouts of Hegazy, the first Egyptian Muslim to, in 2007, fight a legal case to change his religious identity to Christian, . . . Read More

Christmas arrests in Iran: 11 still detained

January 15, 2015 Iran Apostasy, Armenians, Assyrians, Christmas, Converts, Evin Prison, Human rights, Iran, Minorities, Religious freedom, UK, Victor Bet-Tamraz, Zoroastrians

As the US Secretary of State meets his Iranian counterpart in a bid to revive stalled talks over Iran’s nuclear programme, human rights experts are keen that issues of freedom of religion are not overlooked. This week, the UK Foreign Office has said that it’s raised its concern with the . . . Read More

Egypt’s Hegazy sentenced to one year in prison

December 30, 2014 Egypt Apostasy, Converts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya, Mohammed Hegazy, Upper Egypt

Mohammed Hegazy, the first Egyptian citizen to attempt to change his legal religious identity from Muslim to Christian, was sentenced to a year in prison on one charge and acquitted of two other charges at a Dec. 28 hearing in the Misdemeanor Court in Minya, Upper Egypt. According to Mideast . . . Read More

Sudanese ‘apostasy’ Mariam now in the US

August 4, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Mariam Ibrahim, South Sudan, Sudan

The Sudanese death-row mother, Mariam Ibrahim, who’s been in global headlines for renouncing Islam, arrived in New Hampshire last week. She was accompanied by her two children and husband Daniel Wani, a dual US and South Sudanese citizen. The family was initially flown to Italy, where they met the Pope, . . . Read More

Mariam’s permission to leave Sudan still unclear

July 21, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Conflicting reports have emerged regarding the current status of Sudan’s ‘death-row mother’ Mariam Ibrahim’s lack of freedom to leave Khartoum for a new life with her husband and children at his American home. On July 17, Reuters reported that the lawsuit brought by Ibrahim’s Sudanese Muslim father was dropped. The . . . Read More

Continued crisis for Sudanese death-row mother

July 1, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Click below for CNN’s exclusive interview with Mariam Ibrahim, the Christian mother who was given a death sentence for apostasy. Ibrahim who is still in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, said, “there’s a new problem every day” including a potential long-term disability of her daughter which doctors fear was caused by the circumstances of Mariam being shackled . . . Read More

Afghani Christian convert being hunted

July 1, 2014 Afghanistan Afghanistan, Apostasy, Converts

The NY Times has a story about Josef a former Muslim, from Afghanistan, who converted to Christianity and is now fleeing for his life for having changed his faith. He spent a year seeking refuge in four European countries, but at each stop he was rejected. He has no protection . . . Read More

Sudanese Christian shackled during child birth

May 29, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Mariam Ibrahim’s husband Daniel Wani, has said that his wife’s legs were shackled while she gave birth to their daughter, Maya, in prison on May 27. Ibrahim is the Sudanese mother sentenced to death for apostasy. Wani said he was delighted at seeing his baby daughter but he is angry . . . Read More

Sudanese woman gives birth on death row

May 27, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, Sudan

Mariam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, 27, gave birth to a baby girl at a prison near Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. She is allowed to nurse her new-born baby for two years before the death sentence is fulfilled and her 20-month-old son has been in prison with her since she was arrested. Mariam, . . . Read More

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