MERIAM IBRAHIM ‘S NINE MONTHS IN HELL: FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM

The case against Ms Ibrahim dates from 2013 when 'a group of men who claim to be Meriam's relatives' filed an initial legal action, the vicar's statement said. However, according to one Mr. Mustafa, Ms Ibrahim had never seen these men before,

Ms Meriam Ibrahim, who was born eastern Sudan's Gedaref state on November 3, 1987 to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, according to a statement from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum. According to said the statement signed by Father Mussa Timothy Kacho, episcopal vicar for Khartoum, ‘she (Ms Ibrahim) has never been a Muslim in her life.' Her father abandoned the family when she was five, and she was raised according to her mother's faith, it says.

Miss Ibrahim joined the Catholic Church shortly before she married the Mr Wani who was born in Khartoum but is now a U.S. citizen, in December 2011, the vicar said.

She was convicted under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.

Mr Wani, according to source owns a barber shop, a mini-mart and an agricultural project in Gedaref, while Ms Ibrahim Ms Ibrahim is a trained doctor. 2011 - Meriam Ibrahim, who was raised Christian by a Christian mother, marries Daniel Wani, a Catholic from South Sudan who is a U.S. citizen
September 2013 - Meriam is arrested on charges of apostasy and adultery for practicing Christianity and marrying Wani, a Christian. Her son is held in prison with her

‘May 15, 2014 - Meriam, who is eight months pregnant, is sentenced to death by hanging and 100 lashes after refusing to renounce her religion
May 23 - Meriam gives birth to baby Maya while shackled in prison
May 28 - Mr Wani meets his baby daughter for the first time. Both children are held in prison with their mother because authorities won't release them to the care of a Christian
May 30 - U.S. lawmakers join British MPs in calling for Sudan to release Meriam, as international outcry over her sentence increases
June 1 - Sudanese officials raise hopes when they claim they are planning to release Meriam - only to dash it when other officials deny she is getting clemency
June 18 - Sudanese authorities finally remove the shackles from Meriam's legs at the insistence of her doctors
June 23 - A Sudanese court overturns Meriam's death sentence and orders her released from prison’.

SOURCE: MAIL ONLINE