Husband allowed to visit Sudanese woman who gave birth in jail The husband of a Christian Sudanese woman, who gave birth in jail after being sentenced to hang for apostasy, speaks to AFP on his way to try to visit his incarcerated family. The case sparked international outcry when Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 27, gave birth after being convicted under Sudan's Islamic sharia law of converting to Christianity, which has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death. SOUNDBITES