Sudan death sentence woman freed
Source: BBC
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.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27979782
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And does she get to take her children with her?
Her sentence was overturned, not her conviction. Or has her sentence been "reduced" to exile and the loss of her children? Until we know that, this ain't over...
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and are the two children with her?
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One bit of good news today.
it did seem too good to be true.
So I was right to be suspicious about the ruling -- it was her punishment, not her conviction, that had been "quashed." Of course, the arrest could have been coordinated between the NISS and the courts.
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they're "fake" because a) neither of them are South Sudanese citizens, and/or b) Ms. Ibrahim and her children are still Sudanese citizens in Sudan's eyes.
But since when does that require being arrested by a SWAT team?
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...of traveling with falsified documents and giving false information," according to her legal team...(Her husband) Daniel Wani is being held as an accessory.Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services said that she had South Sudanese travel documents, despite not being a citizen of South Sudan, and she was heading to the United States, which is not her native country.
This was considered illegal by the Sudanese authorities, who have summoned both the U.S. and South Sudanese ambassadors," the agency said in a message posted on its media Facebook page early Wednesday.
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Well, she certainly can't get a Sudanese passport or exit visa while she's in jail, can she? If her marriage is not recognized by the Sudanese government, would she be able to get a passport anyway? And what if the court doubles down AGAIN and says that they have to leave their children behind?
Here's hoping the U.S. and South Sudanese ambassadors bring enough money with them.
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"She is in the US embassy now," Mohanad Mustafa said of Ibrahim. "She and her husband think this is a safe place for them" after receiving death threats.
Ibrahim, 27, had been detained with her husband and two young children at Khartoum airport on Tuesday – over allegations she had forged travel documents – as the family tried to leave the country for the US. But she was discharged from a police station, on the condition she remains in Sudan, after the government came under pressure from foreign diplomats
No indication if her husband (a U.S. citizen) or children are with her. But the first step in the right direction has finally been taken.
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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.
So it's more like she's out on bail. But since she and the children are still considered Sudanese subjects, and she hasn't been acquitted of anything, there's still a lot that can go wrong. I won't feel better until they're all on a plane to America!
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