Sudan To Free Death Row Woman.

[ladybirder]

So international condemnation can make a difference then? Let's hope the same can be said for Pakistan and India.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27651483

[Zacs-Master]

Good. But I suspect there are hundreds of cases which we don't hear about.

[Sycamore3House]

Really hope she is freed.

[ladybirder]

I expect you are right Zacs. I hope she is freed too Sycamore but am I being unduly pessimistic in doubting that will be the end of it?

[jno]

maybe we'll offer her asylum?

[ladybirder]

I take it she's in North Sudan? Wouldn't she be better off in the South where they are mainly Coptic Christians (I think)?

[ladybirder]

jno, her husband is a US citizen so I would have thought more likely to go there?

[jno]

nobody seems to know. There are a lot of animists there too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_South_Sudan

[jno]

I didn't know about the husband. (His nationality might have been a factor in the decision.) You'd think they'd be allowed there without trouble.

[kvalidir]

Hopefully Sudan will see this as an opportunity raise their human rights profile with the west and will simply release her, overturn the annulment of he marriage and let her leave hopefully for the US with her husband and children. I really do hope so.

[tiggerblue10]

I agree Kvalidir.

Just reading the BBC News which says "The court said Ms Ibrahim would be allowed to nurse her baby for two years before the sentence was carried out". Does that mean that they still want to go ahead with it? Hope I've read that wrong.

[jim360]

I think -- well, I hope -- that the BBC article is in part reflecting what was the case in the past. While the sentence was still in effect there was a two-year wait so that the child could be nursed. Hopefully, now that the women is to be freed, it will be for good. A shocking case, and shame on any country, or person, or religion, who thinks it just to have such a law.

[zebo]

Her lawyer has apparently denied it.

[kvalidir]

Do you have a link please Zebo?

[ladybirder]

The BBC News site still has it as true but the DM has a quote from her lawyer who says he'll believe it when he sees it. Perhaps that's what zebo meant. I don't think we should be counting the chickens just yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2644796/Sudanese-woman-facing-barbaric-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-FREED-U-turn-authorities.html

[ladybirder]

Sky News has reported that our Foreign Office is seeking confirmation from the Sudanese government that it's true. Her family have not been told she is being freed.
Protesters outside the Sudanese Embassy. Lots of diplomatic pressure going on so ...

[naomi24]

I know I’m tired and might have missed something, but what is going on here? She is under sentence of death in Sudan, but her husband has US citizenship and lives in New Hampshire? Why is she in Sudan?

[ladybirder]

I don't know Naomi, unless she works in the Sudan - her being a doctor. But I'm just speculating.

[ladybirder]

Bit more info which doesn't explain a lot. Meriam and Daniel married in Sudan. Daniel left New Hampshire to visit her in Sudan and arrange for his wife and son to join him in America when she was arrested. He's disabled and in a wheelchair apparently.
If I was her and they freed me I would be out of that country like greased lightening before something very nasty happened to me.

[askyourgran]

Does she have two children? The baby shouldn't be in a place like that exposed to those conditions in jail, but it is keeping her alive until it is weaned.

[ladybirder]

She has both her children in there with her ayg, the new baby girl and her 20-month old son. I think she's got about 2 weeks before she gets her 100 lashes. I wonder what they'll do with the children while she's being lashed. Brave lady. I think I'd do whatever it took to save me.