Sentenced to Death for Her Beliefs Mariam Ibraheem was finally rising above her difficult childhood and building a new life for herself.
Follow Mariam\'s story from refugee camp to life under Islamic law, through imprisonment and childbirth while shackled, to her remarkable escape from Death following an international outcry and advocacy involving diplomats, journalists, religious freedom activists, human rights groups, and even Pope Francis..
Mariam Ibraheem took a stand on behalf of all people who suffer from religious Persecution and all women who are maltreated because of their Gender and beliefs.
Shackled is the stunning true story of a courageous young mother who was willing to face Death rather than deny her Christian faith.
A few months later, Mariam was sentenced to 100 lashes and Death by hanging by a Sharia court.
There, awaiting sentence, she learned she was pregnant with her second child.
She was charged with apostasy and adultery, and she was imprisoned with her nine-month-old, Martin, on Christmas Eve.
Under intense pressure, Mariam repeatedly refused to deny her faith.
She had broken the law by marrying a Christian man, and she must renounce her Christian beliefs and abandon her marriage and her son.
The authorities insisted she was Muslim because of her father\'s background.
But one day in late 2013, her world was shattered when an unknown relative on her father\'s side reported her to the police.
Left without family after the deaths of her beloved mother and sister, she was beginning to move past her grief--earning a medical degree, marrying the man she loved, and having a baby boy.
Her father left the family when she was only six, and her mother raised her in the Christian faith.
Born to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, she grew up in poverty in a refugee camp in Sudan.
Sentenced to Death for Her Beliefs Mariam Ibraheem was finally rising above her difficult childhood and building a new life for herself
