Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag is the pregnant Sudanese woman to be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting.
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Amnesty International and Western embassies are expressing alarm over the harsh sentence meted out to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, who is eight months pregnant.
So far the only concession granted by the Islamic court is to wait until Ishag gives birth before carrying out the sentence. source