Death sentence Sudan mom to be freed

Khartoum — A Christian Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy will be “freed within days”, a foreign ministry official said on Saturday.Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, whose  father was Muslim, was condemned to death  on May 15 under the Islamic sharia law that has been in place since 1983 and outlaws conversions under pain of death, triggering an international  outcry.

She gave birth to a baby girl in a women’s prison on Tuesday. — AFP

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