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Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudan woman who escaped a death sentence imposed for renouncing her faith, says she wants to campaign for others who face religious persecution.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC in the US, where she is seeking asylum, Ms Ibrahim said she hopes to return to Sudan one day.<\/p>\n

Ms Ibrahim earlier received an award from a US Christian foundation.<\/p>\n

Her sentencing – by a Sudanese court that did not recognise her Christian faith – sparked outrage this year.<\/p>\n

Born to a Muslim father, she was raised a Christian by her mother and married a Christian man.<\/p>\n

Under Sudan’s version of Islamic law, however, her father’s religion meant that she too was still technically a Muslim. A court found her guilty of apostasy, or renouncing one’s faith.<\/p>\n

Sentenced to hang, she gave birth to her daughter while shackled in prison. Under intense international pressure, her conviction was quashed and she was freed in June.<\/p>\n

She told the BBC that she had been threatened by the guards while she was in court.<\/p>\n

“The judge told me that I needed to convert to Islam,” she said. “And so these warnings made me anticipate I would be sentenced to death.”<\/p>\n

\"Meriam<\/div>\n
Mrs Ibrahim’s daughter Maya was born in prison in May<\/div>\n

“It wasn’t easy, I can’t describe it,” she said, of her time in prison. “But there are others who are in worse conditions in Sudan than those I was in.”<\/p>\n

“Sadly, this was all under the guise of the law. So instead of protecting people, the law is harming them.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Ms Ibrahim received an award from a gathering of evangelical Christian conservatives in Washington, who see her treatment in Sudan as an assault on their values.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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