Tag: Mariam Ibrahim

Date set for judge to question S Sudan pastors

June 26, 2015 Sudan Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Peter Yen, Sudan, Yat Michael

The prosecution in the trial of South Sudanese pastors Yat Michael and Peter Yen closed its case on 25 June after presenting its final witness, an officer of the National Intelligence and Security Service, but no new evidence. The two men will next appear in court on 2 July, when . . . Read More

S. Sudan pastors face death penalty on charges of sedition and spying

June 4, 2015 Sudan Darfur, East Africa, Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Peter Yen, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

After several false starts, the trial of two South Sudanese pastors, Yat Michael, 49, and Peter Yen, 37, who stand accused of crimes against the state of Sudan and could face the death penalty, has been rescheduled again to 15 June. The court is then due to hear testimony from . . . 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

Mariam’s case highlights plight of Sudan’s Christians

July 16, 2014 Sudan Blue Nile, Darfur, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, South Kordofan, South Sudan

The globally known apostasy case of the death-row mother Mariam Ibrahim, forced to give birth with her legs shackled, is only one of many examples of the religious discrimination that Sudanese Christians battle on a regular basis. The poverty-stricken Muslim country lost the majority of its Christian population to South . . . 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

Sudan’s death row mother freed again

June 27, 2014 Sudan Mariam Ibrahim, Omar al-Bashir

Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudanese mother imprisoned for six months and released from death-row charges for apostasy, was released for the second time on Thursday night. She had been re-arrested less than 24hrs after being freed by the court, after being driven to the airport in a US Embassy car with . . . 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

Condemned to hang, pregnant Sudanese doctor refuses to recant

May 16, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Mariam Ibrahim, Sharia, Sudan

Mariam Yahia Ibrahim, a 27-year-old Sudanese doctor due to have her second baby next month, has been condemned to death by hanging, after yesterday (Thursday May 15th) refusing to renounce her Christian faith, despite pressure on her to do so, even in court. Her lawyer reported that, after the court . . . Read More

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