(Sky News) – A 23-year-old woman convicted of adultery will be stoned to death unless granted a last minute appeal by authorities in Sudan.

Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool is being kept shackled to her six-month-old baby after being convicted by a court in the capital Khartoum on July 10, activists say.

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said last month Sudan would adopt a “100%” Islamic constitution after the breakaway of non-Muslim South Sudan a year ago.

Jamool’s husband accused her of ‘Zina’ (adultery), illegal under the Sudan Penal Code 1991. Her death sentence is the second to be passed in Sudan for the offence in the last few months.

Her case is being followed closely by the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), a women’s rights group. They have assigned lawyers who have appealed against the conviction and sentence.

“The appeal is understood to take not less than one-and-a-half months before a response can be got from the court of appeal,” SIHA said in a statement.

“During all this time, Mrs Jamool will still be shackled in Omdurman women’s prison together with her six-month-old child.”