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    Oregon Aid Worker Faces Death Penalty in Sudan

    Fox News brings to light the story of an Oregon man who is facing the death penalty in Sudan for his political activism. Rudwan Dawod's 'crime' was his goal of rebuilding a Catholic cathedral that was burned to the ground by Sudanese forces. Now, he is held in Khartoum, fighting for his very life, and the death penalty on 'terrorism' charges could come as soon as today.

    His wife in Oregon, Nancy Williams Dawod, who is pregnant, has to watch from here and wonder if the man she loves, who is described as an amazing humanitarian, will be quickly put to death in the latest example of the 'Bush Strategy; i.e. using the terrorism label to carry out political murder.

    The protest he participated in was organized by a group called Girifna, which translates to, “We’re Fed Up”. They are a non-violent youth protest movement in Sudan seeking to end the government's brutality; which in fact equates to state terror.

    Rudwan Dawod works for 'Sudan Sunrise', the non-profit started by late NBA star Manute Bol. His supporters say it is a case of the government trumping up charges against him. Observers in Sudan say it is a classic move to discredit non-violent protesters like Dawod and prevent them speaking out against the government. Of course the larger goal of the Sudanese govt. is to teach a lesson; Dawod, who was visiting relatives on 3 July when he was arrested, is being made an example.

    Tom Prichard, executive director of Sudan Sunrise, told Fox News that Mr. Dawod was taken into custody while participating in a peaceful protest against the ongoing violence in the region and the Sudanese government’s austerity policies.

    “They have picked him out as a way to discredit the youth movement,” Prichard told FoxNews.com.

    “They’re saying this guy comes from the United States, he’s part of the CIA. It’s all part of a very strategic plan to make people afraid of the non-violent demonstrators and they’re hanging it on Rudwan. And they’ve actually picked an amazing humanitarian to try and discredit the movement.”

    Dawod is now charged with terrorism and criminal organization, which can carry the death penalty.

    His wife in Springfield, Ore., told FoxNews.com her 30-year-old husband’s mantra has always been one of peace.

    “He’s run a number of humanitarian projects in South Sudan and helped organize Muslims to rebuild a Catholic church in protest of a recent church burning in Khartoum,” she said Monday. “His message is really always peaceful. My hope is that he will be here before our little girl Sudan is born. We just want him back home safely.”

    A judge presiding over Dawod’s case characterized the youth protest group Girifna as a “terrorist organization,” sources close to the matter told Prichard, during court proceedings on Sunday. Dawod’s attorneys are expected to finish presenting their case today, he said.

    “He’s someone who dreams of a better future, a kind and gracious man,” Prichard said. “He’s someone who is very focused on the suffering of other people. I’ve seen him just weep at times at the suffering of other people.”

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    Verdict expected Monday for U.S. aid worker jailed in Sudan

    A judge is slated to issue a verdict on Monday in the case of a Sudanese activist and permanent U.S. resident facing terrorism charges in the African nation.

    An attorney for Rudwan Dawod, 30, concluded his defense last week and a judge requested additional time to “allow the court to study the record,” said Kody Kness, deputy director of Sudan Sunrise, where Dawod works as a project director.

    Kness said the presiding judge indicated he plans to issue a verdict in the case on Monday

    Dawod’s supporters are “cautiously optimistic” that the permanent U.S. resident will not be found guilty on terrorism charges in Sudan, where he remains jailed and could face the death penalty.

    “I don’t think that anyone would put it past the judge to give Rudwan an unfair verdict or a verdict not based on actual evidence, but the case presented by the defense was very strong,” Kness told FoxNews.com last week. “We’re cautiously optimistic for a not guilty verdict.”

    Dawod, who was working to rebuild a Catholic cathedral in South Sudan after Sudanese forces burned it down, was arrested in Khartoum on July 3 while visiting relatives and attempting to renew his Sudanese passport.

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    In most Muslim countries it is illegal to repair Christian churches. Just one example of their repression of those unlike them.

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    Sudan approves death penalty for human traffickers

    Sudan’s parliament endorsed a human trafficking act that allows to sentence human traffickers with the death penalty.

    According to Sudan’s leading english daily paper, the decision was made after thorough study and deliberations by MPs representing legislation, justice, defense and security, who approved the death sentence act. Members of Parliament emphasized the necessity of harsh punishments for human traffickers.

    UNHCR said last year that Sudan hosts bout half a million of refugees from the Horn of Africa states most of them are from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia who spread in all Sudanese towns.

    Sudan’s Minister of Interior, Babikir Ahmed Digna called for the establishment of specialized institutions to control such crimes.

    Many victims of human trafficking use Sudan as the origin or hub to migrate via the dangerous Sinai in Egypt to host destinations such as Israel or Europe.

    According to data released by Israel’s Ministry of Interior, there are about 55,000 people in Israel who had irregularly entered via the Egyptian border. Of these, 66 per cent are Eritreans, and 25 per cent are Sudanese.

    http://www.capitaleritrea.com/sudan-...n-traffickers/
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    Death penalty after pregnant woman converts to Christianity

    A pregnant Sudanese woman who married a Christian man has been sentenced to death after she refused to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said.

    Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was convicted of "apostasy" on Sunday and given four days to repent and escape death, lawyer Al-Shareef Ali al-Shareef Mohammed said.

    The 26 year old, who is eight months pregnant, was sentenced after that grace period expired, Mohammed said.

    Amnesty International immediately condemned the sentence, calling it "abhorrent."

    Mohammed called the conviction rushed and legally flawed since the judge refused to hear key defence witnesses and ignored constitutional provisions on freedom of worship and equality among citizens.

    Ibrahim and Wani married in a formal church ceremony in 2011 and have a son, 18-month-old Martin, who is with her in jail. The couple runs a farm south of Khartoum.

    Sudan's penal code criminalises the conversion of Muslims into other religions, which is punishable by death.

    As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father's religion.

    Sudan introduced Islamic Shariah laws in the early 1980s under the rule of autocrat Jaafar Nimeiri, a move that contributed to the resumption of an insurgency in the mostly animist and Christian south of Sudan. An earlier round of civil war lasted 17 years and ended in 1972. The south seceded in 2011 to become the world's newest nation, South Sudan.

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    More than half a million call to free pregnant women sentenced to death for apostasy

    Lawyers have confirmed to Amnesty International that an appeal has been lodged against the conviction of a pregnant Sudanese Christian woman, who has been sentenced to death for her religious choice and to 100 lashes for 'adultery'.

    Meriam Yehya Ibrahim has remained in prison with her 20-month-old son since she was sentenced to death for 'apostasy' and to 100 lashes for 'adultery' last Thursday. Her sentence has provoked statements of concern from Sudanese civil society, the United Nations, and governments around the world as well as an exceptional response from Amnesty International supporters, more than 620,000 of whom have joined the call for her release.

    "The plight and the bravery of this young pregnant mother has clearly touched the world. More than 620,000 Amnesty International supporters have taken action to call for her immediate and unconditional release," said Manar Idriss, Amnesty International's Sudan researcher.

    "Since Meriam has been sentenced, we are deeply concerned at the conditions of her detention and use of cruel and inhuman forms of restraint. We have received worrying reports that she has been constantly shackled. The Sudanese authorities must guarantee Meriam's safety and release her immediately and unconditionally."

    According to information received by her lawyers, since her sentence Meriam, who is eight months pregnant, has been constantly chained by her feet, a practice commonly used on prisoners who have been sentenced to death. She has reportedly told her lawyers that the chains were heavy, making any movement painful.

    Her lawyers filed an appeal at the Appeal Court of Bahri and Sharq Al Nil today. If the appeal is unsuccessful, they are planning to explore further avenues, and take the case to Sudan's Supreme Court and Constitutional Court.

    "We welcome the fact that an appeal has been lodged, although Meriam should never have faced any charges or courts in the first place. Amnesty International will continue campaigning for Meriam. We remain hopeful that with enough international and local support this abhorrent conviction and sentence can be overturned," said Manar Idriss.

    Meriam, who is 8 months pregnant, was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion. Her father, a Muslim, was reportedly absent during her childhood. She was arrested and charged with 'adultery' in August 2013 after a family member claimed that she was committing adultery because her marriage was invalid, as her South Sudanese husband is a Christian. The court added the charge of 'apostasy' in February 2014 when Meriam asserted that she was a Christian and not a Muslim.

    Meriam was convicted of both charges on 11 May 2014 and given 3 days to recant her faith. When she refused, she was sentenced to death for 'apostasy' and 100 lashes for 'adultery'.

    Sudan lawyer warned to drop appeal against mother's death sentence.

    The lawyer for a pregnant woman sentenced to hang for apostasy in Sudan has received threatening phone calls warning him to drop an appeal against the death penalty.

    As international outrage deepens over the ruling by an Islamic Sharia judge, the lawyer, Mohamed Jar Elnabi, is expected to return to court on Thursday on behalf of his client Meriam Ibrahim.

    "Meriam's lawyer is filing an appeal but [on Tuesday] he received a threatening phone call to stop working on the case," said Tina Ramirez, the director of Hardwired Global, a religious freedom campaign group that is championing Ms Ibrahim's case.

    Ms Ibrahim, 27, who is 8 months' pregnant, is being held shackled to the floor in a women's prison in Khartoum, where her 20-month-year old son is living with her.

    She was found guilty of adultery and apostasy - the abandonment of her religion - because she married a Christian and refused to recant her Christianity, despite testifying that she had never been a Muslim.

    The court ruling delayed the implementation of its sentence - 100 lashes and death by hanging - for 2 years so that she can give birth to her 2nd baby and raise the child to be a toddler.

    But her family fears that she will not survive a 2nd labour in prison, as her 1st pregnancy was so difficult.

    "It would be dangerous for anyone to give birth in jail in Sudan, where the conditions are hell," Ms Ibrahim's brother-in-law, Gabriel Wani, said.

    "But Meriam had a very difficult first pregnancy and she is not receiving the medical care she needs, so we are really worried about whether she will survive."

    Ms Ibrahim was raised in a Christian family and married Daniel Wani, a Sudanese biochemist who lives in the US, in a Khartoum chapel in 2011. The Sharia court convicted her because her father was a Muslim, even though he left his family when his daughter was 6.

    Mr Wani, who is wheelchair-bound, was "devastated" when he saw his wife for the 1st time since her sentencing on Monday, his brother said. "Emotionally, it's really challenging for him," said Gabriel Wani.

    He and Daniel fled to the US as refugees in 1998 to escape the civil war. "Daniel is going to stay and fight and we are hopeful that the appeal will be successful," his brother said. "But it's just so tough. He was devastated when he saw her. We are all praying for her."

    Mr Wani had been trying to arrange the paperwork for his wife and their 1st child, Martin, to move to the United States when she was denounced to the police by a man claiming to be her brother.

    The Islamic court ruled that as her father was a Muslim, so was Ms Ibrahim and therefore she had committed adultery by marrying Mr Wani.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz32YJPb95S
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    Sudan to release woman sentenced to die for apostasy

    A Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for allegedly abandoning the Muslim faith will be freed within days, foreign ministry officials said Saturday.

    She will likely be "freed within days", a foreign ministry source told AFP.

    Abdullahi Alzareg, an undersecretary at Sudan's foreign ministry, told the BBC that his country was committed to upholding religious freedom and would protect the accused.

    Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but who was raised by her Christian mother, was convicted on May 11 of apostasy for marrying a Christian and sentenced to hang for abandoning the Muslim faith.

    Ibrahim, 27, was eight months pregnant at the time. She gave birth to Maya, a baby girl, on Tuesday while chained in the hospital wing of Omdurman Women’s Prison.

    Her husband has said that Ibrahim identifies as a Christian and was never Muslim, and therefore could not have abandoned the faith.

    Under sharia law, which has has been in force in Sudan since 1983, conversions are punishable by death.

    The court also ordered her Christian marriage to be annulled and sentenced her to 100 lashes for adultery.

    Sex outside a "lawful relationship" is regarded as adultery under Sudanese law.

    News of her impending release came as British Prime Minister David Cameron and former PM Tony Blair urged Sudan's government to commute the death sentence.

    Speaking to "The Times" newspaper on Saturday, Cameron said the treatment of Ibrahim "is barbaric and has no place in today's world".

    Blair described the case as a "brutal and sickening distortion of faith".

    Western embassies and human right activists had condemned what they said were human rights abuses and called on the Sudanese Islamist-led government to respect freedom of faith.

    "We call upon the government of Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion, including one's right to change one's faith or beliefs," the embassies of the United States, Canada, Britain and the Netherlands said in a joint statement.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz33LIm0VAM
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    Sudan denies forthcoming release of Meriam Ibrahim

    A report from the Foreign Ministry, Sudan denied the release of the incarcerated Meriam Ibrahim, with Abubakar Al-Sidiq, a Ministry spokesman, denying knowledge of reports of plans to release her before any such rulings came from an appeals court.

    It is highly unlikely that Ibrahim will change her mind, in spite of the situation she is currently in. David Wani, her husband, who is a U.S. citizen of South Sudanese origin, was not sure about his wife’s release. In an interview released earlier, a distressed Wani, expressed his frustration at the situation.

    While Western media outlets have been reporting that Ibrahim will be released, Wani himself denied knowledge of any such development in the case that has attracted international attention. A pardon from President Omar-al-Bashir is nearly impossible, leaving the judiciary, its only exit strategy that Sudan can use right now, to escape the mounting international pressure.

    As Sudan takes its time to deal with this situation, Wani confirmed that despite the rulings, Ibrahim has no intention of converting to Islam. The mother of two, who was born to a mostly absent Muslim father and an Ethiopian Christian mother, said that the faith she practiced is the only one she knew.

    Sudan’s rulings on Ibrahim’s charges of adultery and apostasy involve a 100 lashes and a hanging, the latter being the first time the decision has been reported in history. Sharia law, did provide a reprieve to Ibrahim as it delayed the hanging for up to two years, as the law did not apply for expectant mothers who have not weaned their children for at least two years.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz33RNRzyfl
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    Christian woman freed after death sentence in Sudan

    (CNN) -- A Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death because she declined to renounce her Christian faith has been freed, her lawyer said Monday.

    Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, reunited with her husband after getting out of custody, said her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour. An appeals court found that an initial judgment against her was faulty, he said.

    He declined to elaborate.

    Ibrahim was convicted of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, and sentenced to die by hanging in May while she was eight months pregnant. In addition to the death sentence, the court convicted her of adultery and sentenced her to 100 lashes.

    Ibrahim gave birth to a girl in a prison
    in the capital of Sudan last month, two weeks after she was sentenced to 100 lashes and to die by hanging.

    Her husband, Daniel Wani, uses a wheelchair and "totally depends on her for all details of his life," her lawyer said.

    She was in the women's prison with her 20-month-old son, but Sudanese officials said the toddler was free to leave at any time, according to her lawyer.

    Her sentence had drawn international condemnation from rights groups and foreign embassies in Khartoum, including those of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

    Christian or Muslim?

    Ibrahim says her father was a Sudanese Muslim and her mother was Ethiopian Orthodox. Her father left when she was 6, and she was raised as a Christian.

    The court had warned her to renounce her Christianity by May 15, but she held firm to her beliefs.

    Sudanese Parliament speaker Fatih Izz Al-Deen said claims that Ibrahim was raised as non-Muslim are untrue.

    She was raised in an Islamic environment, and her brother, a Muslim, filed the complaint against her, according to Al-Deen.

    The complaint alleged that she went missing for several years, and her family was shocked to find out she married a Christian, according to her lawyer.

    However, because her father was Muslim, the courts considered her one too, which would mean her marriage to a non-Muslim man is void.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1
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    Sudan re-arrests death row woman: security official

    (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities re-arrested a Sudanese woman on Tuesday hours after she was freed from death row, and detained her husband and two children as the family tried to board a plane in Khartoum, a security source said.

    Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was sentenced to death last month for converting to Christianity from Islam and was initially released on Monday after what the government said was "unprecedented" international pressure. [ID:nL6N0P43HP]

    The official did not comment on the reasons for Tuesday's re-arrest.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0EZ1EO20140624
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