Sudan apostasy woman takes refuge in US embassy
A Sudanese woman facing death threats after her apostasy death sentence was overturned has been given refuge at the US embassy in Khartoum, the woman’s husband verbally expressed.
Daniel Wani verbally expressed on Friday that Mariam Ibrahim and his two children were doing well at the heavily sentineled facility on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital.
Ibrahim had spent several weeks on death row after being found guilty of forsaking Islam and espousing Wani, a Christian. She was later relinquished, but then charged with forgery while leaving the country on a South Sudan peregrinate document. She sought US bulwark after being relinquished on bail on Thursday.
“Really, it’s good,” Wani told the AFP news agency on Friday, integrating that embassy staff had been “very subsidiary and very nice.”
Wani verbally expressed they had sought the embassy’s bulwark because of death threats against his wife.
The US state department verbally expressed Ibrahim and her family were “in a safe location” and Sudan’s regime “has assured us of the family’s perpetuated safety”.
Ibrahim was born to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother.
Her father forsook the family when Ibrahim was five, leaving her to be raised by her mother, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, which verbalized she joined the Catholic church shortly afore she espoused.
Conversion is outlawed on pain of death in Sudan.
