This is the picture that could cost a pregnant woman in Sudan her life after being sentenced to death for converting to Christianity to marry her husband.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, had been ordered to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam.
She had also been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man. During yesterday's sentence hearing, Judge Abbas al Khalifa asked the pregnant mother whether she would return to Islam.
But she said 'I am a Christian,' and the death sentence was handed down, judicial sources say.
After the verdict her husband, Daniel Wani told CNN: 'I'm so frustrated. I don't know what to do. I'm just praying.'
A government spokesman said the ruling could be appealed in a higher court.
Outside the court, around 50 people held up signs that read 'Freedom of Religion', while some Islamists celebrated.
On February 7, Ms Ibrahim was arrested, with her 20-month-old son, and put in a women’s prison.
It is thought a relative had turned her in to the police for marrying a Christian.
According to the Sudan’s Public Order Criminal Code, she is a Muslim by default because she was born in Sudan.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's career has been defined by war. He came to power in a coup in 1989 and has ruled what was until this year Africa's largest country with an iron fist ever since. Mr Wani, is not allowed to care for their child, Martin, because he is a Christian.
Martin, who is almost two years old, is in prison with his mother. Mr Wani is not allowed to visit or see his son.
Young Sudanese university students have mounted a series of protests near Khartoum University in recent weeks asking for an end to human rights abuses, more freedoms and better social and economic conditions in the country.
The authorities decided on Sunday to close the university indefinitely.
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said he wants to adopt a '100 per cent' Islamic constitution now that the South has split off. The government says the new constitution will guarantee religious freedom, but many Christians are wary
Western embassies and Sudanese activists sharply condemned the accusations and called on the Sudanese Islamist-led government to respect freedom of faith.
'The details of this case expose the regime's blatant interference in the personal life of Sudanese citizens,' Sudan Change Now Movement, a youth group, said in a statement.
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