The Sudan sentenced to death a Christian should not be released from custody. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry protested announcements of an employee.
Meriam Jahia Ibrahim Ishak initially remains in prison. The Christians, who had been sentenced to death in Sudan and had brought a few days ago her second child in custody to the world, can not hope for an early release, as the AFP news agency reported. Whether it is released depends on the court. If this appeal by the defense team and decides it in favor of the 27-year-olds, there is hope, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
On Saturday it was still called that a Christian could hope to get free soon. A senior State Department official had said Ishak, should “in the coming days,” according to the procedures of the judiciary and the Ministry of Justice are released. The Foreign Ministry said the statements of a Ministry employee had been taken out of context.
Sudan Death Sentenced Christian Woman:Lawyer seeks to challenge the judgment in all instances
A court in the capital Khartoum Ishak had sentenced two weeks ago to death by hanging , because they had fallen away from the Islamic faith. The accused refused to confess to Islam and renounce their Christian faith. Your lawyer announced to appeal through the courts .
Shortly after the verdict , the young woman brought earlier in the week in prison to a daughter , according to her husband , she was chained there. Even her 20 months old son to have lived with the young woman in the cell.
The case has made international headlines . Numerous supporters sites on the Internet calling for the release of the detainees . Amnesty International has switched to Human Rights Watch described the case as an example of ” draconian intolerance ” . More than 735,000 times signed a petition for Ishak in the network.
She had been Orthodox Christian educated by her mother after her Muslim father had left the family. She was accused of adultery , because she had married in 2011 originating from South Sudan Christian U.S. citizens. In Sudan’s interpretation of sharia, Islamic law , a Muslim woman may not marry a Christian – otherwise such a marriage is considered as adultery. Ishak was therefore sentenced to a hundred lashes.
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So, so very senseless. Religious beliefs should be a personal matter. What a man or woman thinks about spiritual matters shouldn’t be a matter of government policy. This is especially true of something of inhumane as executing a person because they prefer one religion to another religion. Does it occur to the people who imposed this that death sentence that religious convictions will never truly genuine if they’re enforced by exectutioners.