Imagine that you were born into a faith expression and that when your father left your family, never to be heard from again, your mother raised you in a different tradition of faith. You grew up, studied to be a doctor, met another doctor in church and married him. Then, one of your male relatives got upset with you one day and accused you of adultery-which in the country you are living in means a member of the majority faith expression cohabitating with a member of a minority faith expression. Now imagine that you are prosecuted for this “transgression” by your country’s government and condemned to death by hanging-and you are eight months pregnant. Now to make things worse (as if you could) imagine your toddler being in prison with you because the government has stripped your husband of his parental rights-all due to his religion.
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