A court in Sudan has sentenced three men to amputation for stealing, making it the first time such punishment was handed down in almost a decade.
Worrying development and definite sign of Islamist return. Harks back to the Hudud laws implemented by the state following #Sudan's last Islamo-military coup in 1989.
On June 26, a 20 years old woman from the northeastern African country of Sudan was sentenced to death by stoning for cheating on her husband. She was convicted on charges of adultery, being the first case of stoning in the country after almost a decade.
The Council of Churches in Sudan, which has a minority Christian population, recently criticized the government for banning the construction of new churches in the country.
Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death and 100 lashes on grounds of apostasy and adultery for refusing to renounce Christianity and revert to Islam, was finally released on June 26th and will possibly fly to the United States now.
Meriam Ibrahim, sentenced to death for refusing to revert to Islam, has appealed her death sentence, claiming the court that tried her committed “procedural errors.”
Twenty-seven-year old Sudanese doctor, Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for apostasy, gave birth to a baby girl named Maya in jail, while still in shackles.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man and been ordered by the court to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith to revert to Islam.
