Woman Released From Sudan's 'Death Row' After Conviction for Refusing to Renounce Her Christian Faith — Re-arrested at Airport With Husband

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim with husband. (Screen capture from YouTube video).

By AFP
A Sudanese Christian woman was arrested Tuesday at Khartoum airport a day after a court annulled her death sentence for apostasy and released her from prison, a source familiar with the incident said.

"The National Security took her and Daniel," said the source, referring to Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, and her American husband Daniel Wani.

The status of their two young children, one a baby born in prison before Ishag's release, was not immediately known.

The couple were detained, for reasons that are unclear, at about 1100 GMT as they tried to leave the country, said the source.

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