A pregnant Sudanese doctor has been sentenced to death by hanging after refusing to renounce her Christian faith.
Meriam Ibrahim Ishag, aged 26, was born to a Muslim father and married a Christian man in 2011. She has been convicted of apostasy but told the Sudanese court, "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."
In the Islamic state a child must follow the father's religion. Meriam is eight months pregnant and has an 18-month-old son. Her sentence includes 100 lashes before she is to be hanged.
The British, United States, Canadian and Netherlands Embassies have issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern" about the case.
“It is abhorrent to contemplate the hanging and lashing of a pregnant woman simply because she chooses to follow Jesus. The spread of sharia law is a threat to freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech for all of us and we must resist it wherever it occurs,” says Andrea Williams of Christian Concern.
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