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| Sudan death sentence woman 'freed' | |
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| A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her religious faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. | |
| Meriam Ibrahim's death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. | |
| She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced to hang for apostasy in May by a Sharia court after refusing to renounce Christianity. | |
| Her husband told the BBC he was looking forward to seeing her. | |
| The death sentence for Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, who gave birth to a daughter in prison not long after she was convicted, sparked international outrage. | |
| "We are very very happy about this - and we're going to her now," Ms Ibrahim's lawyer Elshareef Ali told the BBC. | |
| "They have released her... she's on her way to home," he said. | |
| Born to a Muslim father, she married Mr Wani, a Christian, in 2011. | |
| She has been in jail since February, along with her young son. |