We brought you News on the pregnant Sudanese woman, who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her christian faith. We bring you further report regarding the husband of said woman and his reactions. Continue reading…….
According to Daily Mail;
A U.S. citizen, who rushed to his native Sudan to save his pregnant wife from the death sentence, described his horror at seeing her shackled in a prison cell. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag, 27, was charged with adultery for marrying Christian Daniel Wani, a Sudanese man with U.S. citizenship who lives in New Hampshire. She was sentenced to 100 lashes as the Sudanese court refuses to recognize her 2011 marriage to Mr Wani because they consider Ishag a Muslim.
The eight-months pregnant woman, who has a toddler son, was subsequently sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy. Sudanese law considers her a Muslim while she has declared that she was raised Christian and refuses to convert to Islam because Christianity is the only religion she knows.
She told the court: ‘I was never a Muslim. I was raised a Christian from the start.’
Ishag is considered Muslim by the Sudanese court because her father was a Sudanese Muslim. However the woman was raised by her Ethiopian Christian mother after her father left them.
She has been shackled at the legs since the sentence was handed down and her feet are swollen, her husband said.
Mr Wani, 33, was allowed to visit his wife for the first time on Monday where she is being held along with the couple’s 20-month-old son Martin.
The father is not allowed to care for Martin because he is a Christian and his son is considered a Muslim.
Tina Ramirez, executive director of HardWired, an American group which fights for religious freedom around the world, told Mail Online today: Yesterday Daniel saw his wife finally but he told us that his wife had shackles on her feet and they were swollen. ‘Originally he had been told he would not be allowed to see her so this was a surprise. He was also told he would only be allowed to see his son Martin once a week.’
The couple’s lawyer is working on an appeal to the 27-year-old’s sentence amid mounting international pressure. Ms Ramirez added: ‘The lawyers are working on their appeal to the high court and we are standing with them and the people of Sudan who are outraged by this injustice. ‘Many young advocates and opposition groups met last week and are calling for the amendment of the criminal code to remove any punishment for apostasy.’
The White House condemned the pregnant mother’s treatment and urged the Government of Sudan to meet its obligations under international human rights law.
The death sentence has been put on hold until she has given birth and nurses her newborn.
Mr Wani now lives in Manchester with his brother Gabriel, who told WMUR that his sibling had returned home to do everything he could to save his wife.
Gabriel Wani said: ‘I’m just praying to God. He can do a miracle. Everyone is
depressed. You don’t believe it. It’s shock.’
Gabriel Wani said that his brother was at the family’s home in Khartoum where he
was trying to work with the U.S. Embassy to appeal his wife’s sentence.
Daniel Wani was in fear for his life, his brother said and believed he was being watched.
Mr Wani married wife Meriam in a formal ceremony in 2011 and the couple own several businesses including a farm close to the Sudanese capital, Fox reported. Gabriel Wani told theUnion Leader that he and his brother had come to the U.S. in 1998 to flee war-ravaged Sudan. Daniel Wani has been a U.S. citizen since 2005 and last summer went to Sudan to arrange for his wife and son to join him in New Hampshire.
Sudanese University students have protested near Khartoum University in recent weeks asking for an end to human rights abuses, more freedom and better social and economic conditions in the country. The authorities decided on Sunday to close the University indefinitely.
Western embassies and Sudanese activists sharply condemned the accusations and called on the Sudanese Islamist-led government to respect freedom of faith.
‘The details of this case expose the regime’s blatant interference in the personal life of Sudanese citizens,’ Sudan Change Now Movement, a youth group, said in a statement. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government is facing a huge economic and political challenge after the 2011 secession of South Sudan, which was Sudan’s main source of oil. A decision by Bashir last year to cut subsidies and impose austerity measures prompted violent protests in which dozens were killed and hundreds were injured.
The White House said that it strongly condemns the sentence and urged the Government of Sudan to meet its obligations under international human rights law.
Under Sudanese law, Muslims who convert to other religions are sentenced to death. Muslim women in Sudan are banned from marrying non-Muslims but Muslim men can marry a woman of a different faith. Children are legally bound to follow their father’s religion
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