Muslim “relatives” of Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman hiding at the U.S. embassy are taking her to court to try to prove she belongs to their family, a lawyer said Tuesday.
The complainants are the same people who laid an apostasy charge against Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, said the lawyer, Mohanad Mustafa.
Ishag was sentenced to death in May for apostasy from Islam, under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
An appeals court later quashed the verdict and sentence.
Her case raised questions of religious freedom and sparked deep concern among Western governments and human rights activists…
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