Brother of Sudanese woman who converted to Christianity says she deserves to be executed

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell last week, has been sentenced to  100 lashes and death by hanging after a Sharia court convicted her for converting to Christianity, and ‘adultery’ because she had wed a non-Muslim.

Yesterday her brother Al Samani Al Hadi told CNN that he had denounced his sister to the authorities because his family are 'Muslim people.'  Pictures and more stories below...

The brother of  Meriam Ibrahim has said she 'should be executed' if she continues to be a Christian. Ms Ibrahim, who gave birth to a daughter in her prison cell last week, has been sentenced to  100 lashes and death by hanging because she had wed a non-Muslim

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Ibrahim has a son, 18-month-old Martin, who is living with her in jail, where she gave birth to a second child last week. By law, children must follow their father's religion

But Ms Ibrahim, 27, maintains that her Muslim father left when she was young and that she was raised a Christian by her Ethiopian mother, who is an Orthodox Christian.

'It's one of two; if she repents and returns to our Islamic faith and to the embrace of our family, then we are her family and she is ours,' he said.

'But if she refuses she should be executed,' he told CNN. 

Today Ms Ibrahim's lawyer said she has appealed the sentence. 

The appeal demands the release of Ms Ibrahim, saying the court that tried her committed 'procedural errors,'  said her lawyer, Eman Abdul-Rahim. 

Ms Ibrahim ,a qualified doctor, was thrown in jail in September and earlier this month was sentenced to death for apostasy and adultery for marrying Daniel Wani in 2011, a Christian Sudanese man with U.S. citizenship who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.

As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith.

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