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Christian Mother In Sudan

5/15/2014

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International Christian Concern
2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #241, Washington, D.C. 20006
www.persecution.org  |  E-mail: [email protected]

Media Contact:
William Stark, Regional Manager for Africa
[email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Hanging a Mother for Her Faith 
Why the Government of Sudan Plans to Execute a Christian Mother for Her Faith, and What You Can Do to Help Save Her 

05/15/2014 
Washington D.C.
International Christian Concern

Meriam Ibrahim lived a relatively peaceful life amidst the perpetual tumult that has plagued Sudan over the course of its modern history. In the mere decades following its independence from colonial rule in 1957, Sudan has suffered two tragic civil wars; the first lasted 18 years and saw to the death of more than half a million people, 400,000 of whom were civilians. 

Sadly, the history of that first conflict has largely determined Sudan's seemingly unbreakable pattern of dramatic rises to power, followed by crushing betrayals, followed by violent reprisals: a pattern that has not only lead to the current-day reign of Sudan's ruling regime, but that is exemplified in the country's criminal dictator, Omar al-Bashir.

Having usurped power from then-Prime Minister Sadiq al-Madhi, al-Bashir has increasingly tightened his relentless grip of power over the nation's affairs, committing gross human rights violations, including crimes against humanity (especially in the Darfur conflict, which has claimed as many as 461,000 innocent lives and displaced 2,500,000 more, according to the United Human Rights Council), sponsoring extreme Islamist ideologies, and implementing discriminatory and sectarian Islamization and Arabization policies.

Having harbored terrorists and terrorist organizations including Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, Khartoum, under al-Bashir, has changed from the "Paris of 1960's Africa" to an Islamist stronghold bent on enforcing Shari'ah law and eliminating the city's, and eventually the nation's, Christian populations. Adopting a Public Order Criminal Code in 1991, under the counsel of Hassan al-Turabi, a famed Sunni radical who has been referred to as Islam's "Pope of terrorism," the al-Bashir regime has committed itself to public floggings, amputations, and even executions by crucifixion.

In order to enforce its Public Order Criminal Code, Sudan has established a special police force and court system and police force to arrest, detain, try, and eventually punish violators. It was this special police force that arrested and arbitrarily detained Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, an innocent Christian mother pregnant with her second child, on February 17, 2014.

At age six, Meriam's Muslim father left her family permanently, freeing her mother to raise Meriam as an Orthodox Christian. A Khartoum University graduate and licensed medical doctor, Meriam later married Daniel Wani, a South Sudanese Christian and United States citizen. About a year and a half later, Meriam gave birth to their first son, Martin, now 20 months old, who was arrested and arbitrarily detained with his mother. They now languish together in federal prison for Meriam's faith in Christ and faithful marriage to her legal husband. 

As a Sudanese national, Meriam is considered a Muslim by birth. And, according to the Public Order Criminal Code, Muslim women cannot legally marry a man of any religion other than Islam and no Muslim, regardless of gender, age, or creed, can choose to leave Islam. Choosing to leave Islam is considered apostasy, and the price for an apostate is always the same: death.

Charged with adultery and apostasy by the El Haj Yousif Public Order Court in Khartoum on March 4 and convicted of those same charges on March 11, Meriam now faces 100 lashes and a death sentence. That is, unless Meriam chooses to deny her Christian faith in court and publicly accept Islam, the religion prescribed to her by birth, in which case she would only be sentenced to 100 lashes for her "adulterous" marriage.

And so, Meriam has been left with a choice that no free, dignified human being should ever have to face: succumb to forceful conversion and be spared, or exercise her right to freedom of conscience, to stand strong in her faith and, as consequence, to be put to death for believing in the death, and resurrection, of her Savior.

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What You Can Do:

Join International Christian Concern (ICC) in dedicating your social media to speak out #ForMeriam!

Join ICC in calling on Sudan's embassies around the world to demand Meriam's immediate and unconditional release:

United States 
202 338 8565  
United Kingdom
+44 20 7839 8080
Canada
+1 613 235 4000
Belgium
+32 2 647 9494
Germany
+49 30 8906980
France
+33 1 4225 5571

Should you experience issues in reaching your embassy by phone, please feel free to write your embassy's staff using their contact form on their respective site, or by mailing them at the addresses provided below the template. We've provided a template below which you can feel free to copy and paste or modify, or you can draft your message in your own words to respectfully explain to the government of Sudan why you believe Meriam should be set free:

Dear Embassy Representative,

Let me first thank you for taking note of my email.

I would like to bring the attention of the Government of Sudan the case of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a Christian mother eight months pregnant with her second child. She is a Sudanese national, University of Khartoum graduate, licensed medical professional, caring mother and faithful wife to her husband, a United States citizen.

On 17 February, Public Order officials in Khartoum arrested and arbitrarily detained Meriam and her 20-month-old son, in violation of her human right to a fair and public trial, according to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is party.

On 4 March, the El Haj Yousif Public Order Court in Khartoum handed down charges of adultery and apostasy to Meriam for legally marrying a professed Christian and for expressing her Christian faith, in violation of her human right to the free practice of religion, according to the ICCPR. to which Sudan is party.

On May 11, that same court convicted Meriam on charges of adultery and apostasy, punishable by 100 lashes and death respectively, according to Sudan's 1991 Public Order Criminal Code. Today, 15 May, Meriam will be subjected to calls by the Sudan Fatwa Council that she convert to Islam, or be placed before the court once again for the handing down of the above sentences.

As such, I write your Embassy today to respectfully ask the Government of Sudan immediately and unconditionally release Meriam, dropping all charges and foregoing all sentences, so that she and her children, born and unborn, may return to their husband and father.

Thank you once again for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

United States 
2210 Massachusetts Ave NW 
Washington, DC 20008

United Kingdom
3 Cleveland Row, 
St James London SW1A 1DD

Canada 
354 Stewart St
Ottawa, Ontario

Belgium 
Ave Franklin Roosevelt 124
1050 Brussels

Germany 
Kurfürstendamm 151
10709 Berlin

France 
11 Rue Alfred Dehodencq
75016 Paris

For interviews, contact William Stark, Regional Manager for Africa: [email protected] 

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You are free to disseminate this news story. We request that you reference ICC (International Christian Concern) and include our web address, www.persecution.org. ICC is a Washington-DC based human rights organization that exists to help persecuted Christians worldwide. ICC provides Awareness, Advocacy, and Assistance to the worldwide persecuted Church.  For additional information or for an interview, contact ICC at 800-422-5441.

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