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Meriam Ibrahim: First photos of Sudanese woman reunited with her family
2014-06-24
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Sudanese woman on death row for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs has at last been reunited with her family, after spending six months behind bars.

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, left Omdurman women's prison on Monday afternoon, just hours after state media announced that the Supreme Court had overturned the sentence.

Accompanied by her two children, Martin, almost two, and baby Maya, born in prison a month ago, Ms Ibrahim was taken to a safe house in the Khartoum area. In Sudan, which imposes Sharia law, apostasy is a crime punishable by death — and earlier this month Ms Ibrahim's own brother called for her execution unless she "returned" to Islam.

On May 15 she had been ordered to hang for abandoning the Islamic faith — even though she insisted that she had been raised as a Christian, and was never a Mohammedan in the first place. Some people saw the charges as the result of a family feud — and an attempt by Ms Ibrahim's family to gain control of her successful small businesses.

The sentencing caused outrage around the world, and lead to an international campaign to secure her freedom.
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