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| Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan 'apostasy' woman freed again | |
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| A Sudanese woman whose death sentence for marrying a Christian was overturned has been released from jail again, after she was detained at Khartoum airport on Tuesday. | |
| Meriam Ibrahim's lawyer, Muhannad Mustafa, said that she was currently in the US embassy with her family. | |
| Mrs Ibrahim had been detained on charges of falsifying ID documents. | |
| She was first released on 23 June when an appeals court lifted her death sentence for renouncing Islam. | |
| Her sentencing in May to hang for apostasy sparked an outcry at home and around the world. | |
| Mrs Ibrahim, 27, has been held at a police station in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, since Tuesday, when she was prevented from leaving the country along with her husband, Daniel Wani, and their two children. | |
| According to Reuters news agency, quoting her lawyer, Mrs Ibrahim was released on the condition that she remains in Sudan. | |
| "Mariam was released after a guarantor was found, but, of course, she would not be able to leave the country," Mr Mustafa said. | |
| She has been charged with forgery relating to the South Sudanese travel document she was carrying and providing false information. | |
| South Sudan's embassy in Khartoum says the emergency travel documents were issued by the South Sudan authorities and are genuine; her husband is a Christian originally from South Sudan and holds US citizenship. | |
| However, Sudanese officials say she should have used a Sudanese passport and on Wednesday Sudan's Foreign Ministry summoned the US and South Sudan charges d'affaires over the incident. |