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Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for
having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign ministry official says.
Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in custody, will be freed in a
few days, the official told the BBC.
Abdullahi Alzareg, an under-secretary at the foreign ministry, said Sudan
guaranteed religious freedom and was committed to protecting the woman.
Khartoum has been facing international condemnation over the death sentence.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, British Prime Minister David
Cameron described the ruling as "barbaric" and out of step with today's
world.
The UK Foreign Office this week said that it would push for Ms Ibrahim to be
released on humanitarian grounds.
Apostasy debate
Ms Ibrahim, 27, was brought up as an Orthodox Christian, but a Sudanese
judge ruled earlier this month that she should be regarded as Muslim because
that had been her father's faith.
She refused to renounce her Christianity and was sentenced to death by
hanging for apostasy.
On Wednesday, she gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell - the second
child from her marriage in 2011 to Daniel Wani, a US citizen.
The court said Ms Ibrahim would be allowed to nurse her baby for two years
before the sentence was carried out.
The court had earlier annulled her Christian marriage and sentenced her to
100 lashes for adultery because the union was not considered valid under
Islamic law.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population and Islamic law has been in force
there since the 1980s.
The ruling has revived a debate over apostasy, with liberal and conservative
scholars giving different opinions over whether - and how - the act of
abandoning the Islamic faith should be punished. | C*******t
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