Maya Ibrahim
Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced to death when she was eight months pregnant for refusing to recant her Christian faith.
She is still unable to leave Sudan, due to what I consider to be trumped up charges by local officials.
She gave birth to her baby girl, who she named Maya, while she was in prison. Her captors forced her to give birth in chains.
Hopefully, Mrs Ibrahim and her family will be allowed to come to the United States soon and we can provide Maya — and Mrs Ibrahim as well — with the medical care needed to repair the injuries that were inflicted on them by this barbaric government.
From The Telegraph:
“I gave birth chained,” she said, in her first description of the May 27 birth.
“Not cuffs – but chains on my legs. I couldn’t open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table. I wasn’t lying on the table.”
When asked whether she was frightened that giving birth in such conditions could harm her baby, she said: “Something has happened to the baby.”
She explained that her daughter had been left physically disabled – but the extent of the disability would not be clear until she was older.
“I don’t know in the future whether she’ll need support to walk or not,” she said.
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