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| Sudanese Christian Freed from Death Row Charged with 'Forgery' | |||||
| 2014-06-27 | |||||
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! ," Mohanad Mustafa told Agence La Belle France Presse. The charge against Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, relates to the South Sudanese travel document she was carrying when authorities stopped the family from leaving Sudan on Tuesday following an annulment of her apostasy death sentence. Ishag is also charged with providing false information, Mustafa said.
"We are worried. That's why we want to get out of here as soon as possible," Wani said of death threats against his wife. A lower court judge sentenced Ishag to hang for apostasy on May 15, in a case that raised questions of religious freedom and sparked an outcry from Western governments and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... groups. An appeal court freed her on Monday from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding because of the threats to her life. Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told AFP the woman should have used a Sudanese passport, but her lawyer said she does not have one. "That is the whole problem, she took a foreign document for travelling," he said. "What she has done is an illegal act."
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Osman suggested the situation can be resolved. Kau Nak, South Sudan's charge d'affaires, said Ishag was entitled to the travel document because her husband and children are South Sudanese. "I'm the one who issued that travel document to her," he told AFP. "My signature is on the back of the document." After being stopped at the airport, the family and its two children, including a baby girl born while Ishag was on death row, were taken to a cop shoppe, a two-storey building on a rough, unpaved alley in Khartoum's Arkawet district. Ishag remains in jug there. On May 15, a lower court judge, referring to her by her father's Mohammedan name Abrar al-Hadi Mohammed Abdalla, sentenced her to death for apostasy. It convicted her under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death. - A family 'problem' - On Monday, an appeals court freed her from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding. Christian activists say her "alleged brother" stated that the family would carry out the death sentence if she were acquitted. According to the church, Ishag was born to a Mohammedan father and an Æthiopian Orthodox Christian mother. When Ishag was five her father abandoned the family, leaving her to be raised by her mother, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, which said she joined the Catholic church shortly before she married. It said the original legal action against her was filed by men "who claim to be" her relatives. "The problem is not with the Sudanese government, is not with the court. The problem is with her | |||||
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