Meriam freed after international pressure

A SUDANESE woman who gave birth in prison after being sentenced to death for converting to Christianity, has been set free.

The case of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag sparked an outcry from Western governments and rights groups after a judge sentenced her to hang on May 15. The young 27-year-old physician, was convicted under the Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and makes conversions of faith punishable by death. “Meriam was released just about some hour ago,” Mohanad Mustafa told AFP