Meriam, already mom to a 20-month-year-old son named Martin, has been shackled to a cell in Omdurman prison on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan for months, desperately hoping the U.S. government would intervene.
Her husband, an American citizen, along with both children, has plead for Meriam’s release from a ruthless Islamic regime, who jailed the 27-year-old for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Now, subjected to the worst of conditions, Meriam’s cries seem to have fallen on deaf ears in her children’s homeland thousands of miles away. The prison where she and her two children now suffer are shocking by anyone’s standards.
The arrival of the Ibrahims’ little girl also resets the clock on Meriam’s execution, which the Sudanese government will order once the child is weaned,