Heavily pregnant Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, also known by the Islamic name Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah, has been sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging by the neck by a Sudanese court for apostasy after she left Islam and married a Christian man.
She was convicted of adultery on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from South Sudan was void under Sudan's version of Islamic law, which says Muslim women cannot marry non-Muslims.
The woman was originally sentenced to death on Sunday but given until Thursday to return to Islam.
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She calmly told the judge: "I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy."
Amnesty International said Meriam was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood.