Jailed child of condemned Sudanese mother ‘could be US citizen’
Daniel Wani, husband of the convicted Sudanese Maryam Yahya Ibrahim (27), is reportedly a naturalised US citizen who has sought help from the US State Department for himself, his 20-month-old son, his wife, and the unborn child whom she is carrying in prison. Wani himself says he gaind US citizenship some years ago. The State Department refused on Monday to answer questions about the citizenship of either father or baby. “My wife Maryam Yahya Ibrahim was never a Muslim,” Wani told Morning Star News. “As an American citizen, I ask the people and government of the USA to help me.” DNA sample requestedThe news site reported that Wani said the US Embassy in Khartoum wanted him to provide DNA evidence to prove the imprisoned child, Martin Wani, was his son. “I will have to take a DNA sample in Khartoum, then send it to the USA for testing. I have provided wedding documents and the baby’s birth certificate, and doors were closed on his face.” The State Department’s spokesperson Jen Psaki did not comment on this statement on Monday. On 11 May, the El Haj Yousif Criminal Court in Khartoum North convicted the now pregnant mother, who is also a medical doctor, for apostasy for professing Christianity after having been born of a Muslim father. The court also charged her with “adultery” for relations with her own husband because Sudan refuses to recognise the marriage of a Muslim woman to a Christian man. Last week, after Maryam Yahya Ibrahim refused to renounce her Christian faith, the court sentenced her to be flogged for adultery and executed for apostasy. Ibrahim was born in western Sudan to an Ethiopian Christian mother and a Sudanese Muslim father. She has been held in Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison since 17 February. (CNSNews.com)File photo: Guard inspects prison in Darfur (Albert González Farran / Unamid) Related: ‘Death penalty for Christian woman violates Islamic principles’: PCP (18 May 2014) Sudan Court confirms death penalty for pregnant mother refusing to leave Christian faith (15 May 2014)
Daniel Wani, husband of the convicted Sudanese Maryam Yahya Ibrahim (27), is reportedly a naturalised US citizen who has sought help from the US State Department for himself, his 20-month-old son, his wife, and the unborn child whom she is carrying in prison. Wani himself says he gaind US citizenship some years ago. The State Department refused on Monday to answer questions about the citizenship of either father or baby.
“My wife Maryam Yahya Ibrahim was never a Muslim,” Wani told Morning Star News. “As an American citizen, I ask the people and government of the USA to help me.”
DNA sample requested
The news site reported that Wani said the US Embassy in Khartoum wanted him to provide DNA evidence to prove the imprisoned child, Martin Wani, was his son. “I will have to take a DNA sample in Khartoum, then send it to the USA for testing. I have provided wedding documents and the baby’s birth certificate, and doors were closed on his face.” The State Department’s spokesperson Jen Psaki did not comment on this statement on Monday.
On 11 May, the El Haj Yousif Criminal Court in Khartoum North convicted the now pregnant mother, who is also a medical doctor, for apostasy for professing Christianity after having been born of a Muslim father. The court also charged her with “adultery” for relations with her own husband because Sudan refuses to recognise the marriage of a Muslim woman to a Christian man. Last week, after Maryam Yahya Ibrahim refused to renounce her Christian faith, the court sentenced her to be flogged for adultery and executed for apostasy.
Ibrahim was born in western Sudan to an Ethiopian Christian mother and a Sudanese Muslim father. She has been held in Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison since 17 February.
(CNSNews.com)
File photo: Guard inspects prison in Darfur (Albert González Farran / Unamid)
Related:
‘Death penalty for Christian woman violates Islamic principles’: PCP (18 May 2014)
Sudan Court confirms death penalty for pregnant mother refusing to leave Christian faith (15 May 2014)
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