Pregnant Christian Mother Sentenced to Death For Refusing To Renounce Faith

Woman stoned to death outside Lahore High Court

By Reuters

Updated a day ago

Police said 25-year-old Farzana Iqbal was stoned to death by her family for marrying the man she loved.

LAHORE: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside the Lahore High Court on Tuesday in a so-called “honour” killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.
Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer.

Her father, two brothers and former fiance were among the attackers, he said. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said.
All the suspects except her father escaped. He admitted killing his daughter, Cheema said, and explained it was a matter of honour.

Cheema said Farzana had been engaged to her cousin but married another man. Her family registered a kidnapping case against him but Farzana had come to court to argue that she had married of her own free will, he said.

Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Pakistanis, who view marriage for love as a transgression.

Around 1,000 Pakistani women are killed every year by their families in honour killings, according to Pakistani rights group the Aurat Foundation.

The true figure is probably many times higher since the Aurat Foundation only compiles figures from newspaper reports. The government does not compile national statistics.

Campaigners say few cases come to court, and those that do can take years to be heard. No one tracks how many cases are successfully prosecuted.

Even those that do result in a conviction may end with the killers walking free. 

Pakistani law allows a victim's family to forgive their killer.

But in honour killings, most of the time the women’s killers are her family, said Wasim Wagha of the Aurat Foundation. The law allows them to nominate someone to carry out the murder, then forgive him.

“This is a huge flaw in the law,” he said. “We are really struggling on this issue.”

Christian ‘Apostate’ Sentenced to Death in Sudan Gives Birth in Jail

 
May 27, 2014
    

Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced to death for marrying a Christian and refusing to convert to Islam

A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for “apostasy” after marrying a Christian and refusing to denounce the faith gave birth in prisonTuesday morning.

Lawyers for Meriam Ibrahim, 27, told the U.K.’s Daily Telegraphthat the mother of two wasn’t taken to a hospital or allowed to see her husband, who has been waiting outside of the prison.

Ibrahim was sentenced to death May 15 for apostasy and adultery by a Sudanese court. She will be allowed to live and nurse her child, named Maya, for two years before she is put to death. Her 20-month old child Martin is in prison with her, too.

World leaders and human rights organizations have spoken out to stop the execution.

An Amnesty International petition to override the sentencing has been signed by more than 660,000 people thus far.

Now that Ibrahim has given birth, the Telegraph reports, she is subject to 100 lashes for adultery.

http://time.com/120370/meriam-ibrahim-sudan-christian/

I've been praying for this woman. I do believe that the Muslims are going to get annhilated. The war where 1/3 of the people are killed..... That one. Is that Psalm 83 war? The one that originates from the countries along the Euphrates...I forget. But all this madness has to stop. And it can't come soon enough for women and children in the muslim countries.

God is giving these creeps all the rope they need to hang themselves come the day of judgment.

I had to look Lahore up. I didn't even have a clue if it was some city or just another po-dunk islamic cesspool country.

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Lahore is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest and metropolitan area in the country. It is the largest native Punjabi-populated city in the world and an important historical center in South Asia. Wikipedia

State Dept. Admits Husband of Christian Sentenced to Die in Sudan is U.S. Citizen; Won’t Say If His Jailed Infant and Toddler Are Americans, Too
June 3, 2014 - 12:32 AM

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Secretary John Kerry (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

(CNSNews.com) - The State Department conceded Monday that Daniel Wani—the husband of Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to renounce her Christian faith—is a U.S. citizen.
However, the State Department would not say whether Wani and Ibrahim’s 1-week-old daughter and 20-month old son--who are now in jail with their mother--are the children of a U.S. citizen.
“We do have a Privacy Act waiver for Mr. Wani at this time, who I can confirm is a U.S. citizen, as has been reported,” State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said at Monday’s press briefing.


“We have been engaged with him since June of 2013, so for the last year,” Psaki said. “We’ve been in regular contact with him throughout the trial. Embassy officials most recently met with him on June 2nd, so that is today. And one of our top priorities, as all of you know, is the protection of U.S. citizens overseas, and our continued engagement with him and efforts to assist him as a U.S. citizen are indicative of that commitment.”


If the State Department has “been engaged” with Wani since June 2013 that means it started dealing with him three months before Sudan initially threw his pregnant wife in jail for alleged ‘apostasy” from Islam.


“Daniel was in Khartoum trying to arrange for Meriam and their 20-month-old son, Martin, to live with him in the U.S. when his wife was arrested inSeptember. She was three weeks pregnant with their second child,” the Daily Mail reported last week.


The Daily Mail also reported that the couple married in December 2011 in Sudan “at a Christian service in a chapel which was attended by around 500 people.”


CNSNews.com asked Psaki: “Now that we publicly know that he’s a U.S. citizen, these children--this one-week-old little girl and this 20-month-old boy--these are the children of a U.S. citizen that are being held by the government of Sudan?



DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)


Psaki responded: “Well, without commenting on this particular scenario, I can say that certain requirements must be met for parents to transmit U.S. citizenship to their children, and I can, I would point you to our website and like at the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act] requirements for what is required in that case.”

 
Section 301 of the INA itself says: “The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: … (g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years.”


The Manchester Union Leader, published in the New Hampshire city where Daniel Wani lives, reported on May 17 that Wani moved to the United States sixteen years ago. “Daniel Wani, a U.S. citizen since 2005, went to Sudan last summer to arrange for his wife and child to move to New Hampshire, where the Wani brothers immigrated in 1998 after fleeing the war-torn African country,” the paper said.


Under questioning from reporters, the State Department’s Psaki said that the department did not “have the information needed in this case” to establish the citizenship of Daniel Wani’s two young and imprisoned children.


The Daily Mail reported last week—when Ibrahim and Wani’s daughter, Maya, was born in Sudan’s Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison—that Wani said the U.S. Embassy in Sudan had asked him for DNA evidence to prove that his son was his son.
“I thought this would be the one place which would help me, but they told me they didn't have time to do anything,” the Daily Mail quotes Wani as saying. “I was upset because now that I am an American citizen I thought they would help me. I was threatened. They said ‘well your wife isn't American, so we can't help.’ I felt disgusted. My home is in America and still they won't help. It's getting uglier and it's not going in the right direction.”


“I have provided wedding documents and the baby's [son Martin’s] birth certificate, but this is clearly not enough,” Wani said, according to the Daily Mail.


“It's very upsetting that they don't believe me. They want me to take a DNA sample in Khartoum, then send it to the US for testing. It's as if they don't believe a word I say.”


At Monday’s State Department press briefing a reporter asked Psaki: “One point I wanted to clarify was, in the British press, Mr. Wani was quoted as saying that the State Department had asked for DNA testing of the children. Is that correct?”


Psaki responded: “Well, there are certain requirements that I just referenced to you that have long been the case, and they’re available on, are on the INA website. To transmit U.S. citizenship to a child born abroad there must be, among other requirements, a biological relationship between the child and a U.S. citizen, a parent or parents. U.S. regulation authorizes the department to request whatever additional evidence it may need to establish the U.S. citizenship. Genetic testing is a useful tool for verifying a biological relationship. Again, this is all available on our website and is standard operating procedure in these cases.”


A reporter asked: “Are you saying that those requirements have not been met, is what I see you suggesting?”


Psaki said: “We don’t have all the information we would need in this case.”


“The State Department is contesting that these two children are Mr. Wani’s children?” CNSNews.com asked.


“We’re not contesting anything. We have standard requirements,” Psaki said.


“You’re forcing him to prove it with DNA?” CNSNews.com asked.


“We have standard requirements across the [inaudible],” said Psaki.


“Do you know if you have made an effort with the Sudanese to get the kind of genetic information that you would need from the infant and child?” a reporter asked.


“I don’t have any other details I can share on that case,” Psaki said.


“Has the father offered to provide the genetic inform--whatever it is that you would need to make a determination that is required by the law?” a reporter asked Psaki a moment later.


Psaki said: “All I’m going to say is we don’t have the information needed in this case.”


A reporter asked: “Does that mean that information has been provided and it proved negative, or does that mean that you just don’t have it?"


“I don’t have any other details I can share,” Psaki said.


As explained in 7 Foreign Affairs Manual 1130, the State Department’s procedures for establishing the citizenship of child born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent does not require a DNA test, but allows one.


“Applicants must meet different standards of proof of blood relationship depending on the circumstances of their birth,” says the manual. “The statutes do not specify a standard of proof for persons claiming birth in wedlock to a U.S. citizen parent or out of wedlock to an American mother. The Department’s regulations also do not explicitly establish a standard of proof. The Department applies the general standard of a preponderance of the evidence."


“Children born in wedlock are generally presumed to be the issue of that marriage,” says the manual. “This presumption is not determinative in citizenship cases, however, because an actual blood relationship to a U.S. citizen parent is required. If doubt arises that the citizen ‘parent’ is related by blood to the child, the consular officer is expected to investigate carefully.”


Each fiscal year, the departments of State, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services present Congress with a report on proposed refugee admissions. The report for fiscal 2014 indicates that President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson have legal discretion in granting refugee status to people who are still in their country of origin.


“Generally, to be considered a refugee, a person must be outside his or her country of nationality or, if stateless, outside his or her country of last habitual residence,” says the report. “Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 101(a)(42)(B), however, the president may specify circumstances under which individuals who are within their countries of nationality or last habitual residence may be considered a refugee for purposes of admission to the United States. The FY 2014 proposal recommends continuing such in-country processing for specified groups in Iraq, Cuba, Eurasia and the Baltics.


“Persons for whom resettlement is requested by a U.S. ambassador in any location in the world may also be considered, with the understanding that they will only be referred to the USRAP following Department of State consultation with USCIS at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” says the report.


“Section 207(c) of the INA grants the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security authority to admit, at his/her discretion, any refugee who is not firmly resettled in a third country, who is determined to be of special humanitarian concern, and who is admissible to the United States,” the report says.


State Department Spokesperson Psaki did not directly answer a question on whether Secretary of State John Kerry has had any communications with Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson about the plight of Meriam Ibrahim and her children.


“We would not have spoken out as strongly as we have about this horrific case if there weren’t concerns from the very top,” Psaki said. “I’m not going to outline it further.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/state-dept-admits-husband-christian-sentenced-die-sudan-us-citizen

They are setting her free. At least that's what I heard last week.