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Sudan: Woman appeals death sentence for ‘apostasy’
Original Publication Date: June 4, 2014 6:43PM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 11:01PM
KHARTOUM, Sudan – A defence lawyer for a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith says she has appealed the verdict.
Lawyer Eman Abdel-Rahim told The Associated Press that the appeal demands her client’s release because the court that tried her committed “procedural errors.”
Meriam Ibrahim was last month sentenced to death by a Khartoum court for allegedly converting to Christianity from Islam.
She maintains that her Muslim father left when she was young and that she was raised a Christian by her Ethiopian mother, who is an Orthodox Christian.
She married a Christian man from southern Sudan in a church ceremony in 2011.
Amnesty International condemned the sentence, calling it “abhorrent,” and the U.S. State Department said it was “deeply disturbed” by the sentence.
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