KHARTOUM: A Sudanese judge sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman on Thursday to hang for apostasy, a ruling that Britain denounced as “barbaric” and left the United States “deeply disturbed.”

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 27, is married to a Christian and is eight months pregnant, human rights activists say.

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