She deserves to die!

Says brother of Sudanese woman facing death penalty for 'abandoning her Islamic faith' by marrying a Christian

The brother of a Sudanese wom­an facing the death penalty for "abandoning her Islamic faith" has said she 'should be executed' if she continues to be a Christian.

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell last week, has been sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging after a Sharia court convicted her for converting to Christianity, and 'adul­tery' because she got married to a non-Muslim.

Thursday, her brother Al Samani Al Hadi told CNN that he had denounced his sister to the authorities because his family members are "Muslim people."

But Ms Ibrahim, 27, 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.

"It's one of two; if she repents and re­turns to our Islamic faith and to the em­brace of our family, then we are her family and she is ours,' he said.

"But if she refuses she should be execut­ed," he told CNN.

Ms Ibrahim's lawyer said she has ap­pealed the sentence.

The appeal demands the release of Ms Ibrahim, saying the court that tried her committed "procedural errors," said her lawyer, Eman Abdul-Rahim.

Ms Ibrahim, a qualified doctor, was thrown in jail in September and earlier this month was sentenced to death for apostasy and adultery for marrying Daniel Wani in 2011, a Christian Sudanese man with U.S. citizenship who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.

As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from mar­rying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith.

Ibrahim has a son, 18-month-old Mar­tin, who is living with her in jail, where she gave birth to a second child last week. By law, children must follow their father's re­ligion.

A video shows Ibrahim with her new­born and her son Martin at the prison's hos­pital where she gave birth.

Looking happy and relaxed, the video shows Ibrahim breastfeeding the baby while seated on a bed with Martin sitting close by.

Amnesty International condemned the sentence against Ibrahim, calling it 'abhor­rent,' and the U.S. State Department said it was 'deeply disturbed' by the sentence.

Sudan introduced Islamic Shariah law in the early 1980s under the rule of auto­crat Jaafar Nimeiri, a move that contributed to the resumption of an insurgency in the mostly animist and Christian south of Su­dan.

The south seceded in 2011 to become the world's newest nation, South Sudan.
Sudanese President Omar-el-Bashir, an Islamist who seized power in a 1989 mili­tary coup, has said his country will imple­ment Islam more strictly now that the non-Muslim south is gone.

A number of Sudanese have been con­victed of apostasy in recent years, but they all escaped execution by recanting their new faith.

Religious thinker and politician Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, a critic of Ni­meiri and his interpretation of Shariah, was sentenced to death for apostasy.

He was executed in 1985 at the age of 76.

Campaigners had said that they feared the Sudanese government was just 'playing games' to try and get the international com­munity off its back.