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Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for leaving Islam, barred from leaving Sudan

Sep 19, 2014 12:03 pm By Robert Spencer

MeriamIbrahimMeriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan because her father was Muslim but she was Christian, is now safely out of Sudan. And so it appears that Sudan’s Islamic supremacist government is taking out their anger over not being able to murder her on her lawyers. “Attorneys for Meriam Ibrahim Banned from Leaving Sudan,” Morning Star News, September 19, 2014:

JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Sudan this week banned five attorneys from leaving the country after another lawyer accused them of tainting the country’s image by defending Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian mother of two falsely accused of apostasy, two of the attorneys said.

The move came in response to attorney Iman Hassan submitting a letter of complaint to a Sudan court accusing the defense lawyers of wresting the case from her, Ibrahim’s lawyers said. Hassan is also requesting that the court revoke the licenses of the five lawyers, who are not Christian but support the rights of Christians and other minorities in the country.

“The five attorneys have tarnished the image of Sudan by allowing human right organizations to put pressure on the government,” Hassan wrote in her complaint.

The court in Ibrahim’s case rejected Hassan’s attempt to defend the Christian mother at Ibrahim’s request, the defense attorneys said.

Ibrahim was sentenced to death after refusing to renounce Christ, but the sentence was revoked on June 23, less than two months after Morning Star News broke the story that set off a firestorm of international protests, and she was permitted to leave the country on July 24.

The defense attorneys said judicial authorities appear to be biased against them. One said he was surprised that the government sought to retaliate for a case that was already closed.

“Who can challenge the government?” he told Morning Star News.

“We have been told to give explanation to the accusations filed against us without being given enough time,” said another defense attorney. “We have no intention to leave the country, but it seems time has come for ‘payback’ for our work on Meriam’s case.”

Nuba Christians Arrested, Attacked

Ibrahim, of Ethiopian/Sudanese descent, and her husband, from South Sudan, lived as dark-skinned Christians among Arabic Muslims in Sudan, where some officials regard both black people and Christians as second-class citizens.

Black, ethnic Nuba Christians face the same disdain, both in the Nuba Mountains where the government is fighting a rebel force and in Khartoum. In Omdurman, across the River Nile from Khartoum, police in June raped a Christian Nuba woman after arresting her and several others at a wedding reception, sources said.

Police arrested 40 Nuba Christians after a wedding ceremony at the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Omdurman, according to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, a Sudanese rights group based in Kampala, Uganda.

A church leader who spoke with Morning Star News confirmed the incident. Those attending the wedding proceeded to White Nile Beach in the Hai Al-Mulazmeen area for a reception, where police made the arrests. They released without charge 34 of the 40 people arrested on June 22 but detained four men and two women overnight, gang-raping one of the women on June 23, the group and church leader said.

All six of those held overnight were charged with disturbing the peace – the wedding had included worship songs sung in Arabic – before being released on bail on June 23. Among the 40 detained, several reported being beaten, verbally abused with racist language and threatened with sexual violence while in detention. Those detained included at least 14 teenage Christians….

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  1. mariam rove says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    brahim, of Ethiopian/Sudanese descent, and her husband, from South Sudan, lived as dark-skinned Christians among Arabic Muslims in Sudan, where some officials regard both black people and Christians as second-class citizens.

    This is the story of all minorities living under Islam. The so called religion of peace!! M

  2. Angemon says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    Sudan this week banned five attorneys from leaving the country after another lawyer accused them of tainting the country’s image

    Banned from leaving the country for tainting the country’s image? Just what kind of tomfoolery were this guy up to?

    by defending Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian mother of two falsely accused of apostasy

    This was it: giving someone their right to a proper defense. If they were allowed to defend her then that means the legal system permitted that. The “crime” Meriam was accused of was of apostatizing from islam. Sudan’s image was tarnished all right, but for sentencing a woman to death to death for something that is not a crime in any Western democracy. Only muslim-majority countries would consider that defending an innocent woman from false charges is tarnishing to Sudan’s reputation – after all, she’s not only a woman but an unrepentant christian as well.

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    The government of Sudan has taken a clear stand against human rights. That government must be punished until they change their stance.

    • PJG says

      Sep 19, 2014 at 10:29 pm

      The government hasn’t been punished for mass murder of black people in the south, in Darfur, in the Nuba Mountains. They are not likely to be punished for this.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    “The five attorneys have tarnished the image of Sudan by allowing human right organizations to put pressure on the government,” Hassan wrote in her complaint.

    The court in Ibrahim’s case rejected Hassan’s attempt to defend the Christian mother at Ibrahim’s request, the defense attorneys said.”

    And notice the *spite* involved. The Hassan bi!$£& wasn’t allowed to ‘defend’ Meriam, (I can imagine what sort of ‘defence’ she would have provided) at Meriam’s own request – I expect she knew damn well what the Hassan cow’s agenda was, so Hassan deliberately ”submits a complaint” against them, accusing them of ”bringing the Sudanese government into disrepute”, as well as taking Meriam’s (high profile) case away from her, Hassan.

    I’m only astonished Hassan didn’t accuse them of blasphemy !

  5. Ayatrollah says

    Sep 19, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    This sort of goes with Meriam Ibrahim brother telling the world he was the victim because his honor was damaged by his sister not being a Muslim. (There is a YouTube clip of him explaining why he was the actual victim).

    Sudan has an honor problem, I hope they work it out.

  6. Wtf? says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 5:10 am

    All foreign aid and trade should be stopped with these backward nations. Why bother with a judicial system unless you are going to allow it to run its course and be seen as justice? Ancient tribes wandering around in the 21st century with no idea. Bring back imperial times at least they knew their place then. Lol

  7. Linda Rivera says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    This is why it is an act of dreadful treason by our leaders to allow muslims into our countries.

  8. eric says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 5:37 am

    I wonder what part of the Koran calls for law enforcement personnel gang raping persons in their custody. There are no words to adequately express the disgust and hate I feel upon reading of yet another violent perversion pressed upon innocents by barbaric and primitive Muslims. Death to those who act in that manner.

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