Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag

Mariam [Meriam] Yahia Ibrahim Ishag or Maryam Yaḥyā Ibrahīm Isḥaq is a Sudanese religious freedom activist and public speaker. Meriam Ibrahim's birth father is a Muslim, so that according to Islamic law she is a Muslim, leading to her arrest for marrying a Christian man. She was arrested during her second pregnancy for apostasy, sentenced to death shortly there after, giving birth to a girl in prison on 27 May 2014. Mariam Ibrahim's case is part of a wider problem of persecution of Christians in Sudan.