Sudanese Christian Woman Ordered Freed Again

Mohamed Osman of the Associated Press reports that Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for apostasy and then released on Monday, was ordered to be freed again Thursday after being rearrested on Tuesday. Ibrahim, her husband, and her two children were detained at the airport in Khartoum on Tuesday while trying to travel to the United States. Her lawyer Eman Abdul-Rahman says that she has again been released after pressure from foreign governments.

Read at Associated Press

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