Meriam Yehya Ibrahim considers herself Christian , but a court says she 's Muslim . A Khartoum court convicted her of apostasy , or the renunciation of faith . `` The fact that a woman could be sentenced to death for her religious choice , and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion , is abhorrent and should never be even considered , '' said Manar Idriss , Amnesty International 's Sudan researcher . She was sentenced to death by stoning.
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim considers herself Christian , but a court says she 's Muslim . A Khartoum court convicted her of apostasy , or the renunciation of faith . She was sentenced to death by stoning.