Sudan To Free Death Row Woman.

[ladybirder]

So international condemnation can make a difference then? Let's hope the same can be said for Pakistan and India.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27651483

[ladybirder]

Phew! Me too. I don't expect they'll be rushing her paperwork through though. Nothing is assured, just holding my breath for her and her family. A waiting game again now:-(

[kvalidir]

They should give her a job as a cleaner at the US embassy and get her out of there on a diplomatic plane ;/
I'm frightened someone will find her and kill her or possibly her whole family and then the govt will say ' oh dear nothing to do with us'.

[naomi24]

Why the surprise? This is Sudan.

[ladybirder]

I suppose one shouldn't be but I am, time after time, shocked and upset at man's inhumanity to man and woman. Should have got used to it by now but we are what we are. (Sigh)

[kvalidir]

Here's the latest- new charges :(
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2668475/Sudanese-mother-freed-death-sentence-arrested-American-husband-babies-feared-security-forces-family-tried-flee-country.html

[ladybirder]

Bit more here. No good news.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10924424/Sudan-summons-US-ambassador-in-row-over-Christian-convert.html

[naomi24]

Can't help thinking that one way or another, they'll get her. :o(

[ladybirder]

Another twist of the knife.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2669300/Another-cruel-twist-knife-Sudanese-mother-Meriam-Ibrahim-faces-SEVEN-years-jail-trying-flee-country-hours-death-sentence-marrying-Christian-dropped.html

[askyourgran]

They are truly evil people, preventing her from leaving the country. It seems that the adverse publicity led to her freedom from jail, but not from the country.

[ladybirder]

Husband and children in with her as well and he's in a wheelchair. The US needs to pull its finger out. What a fiasco.

[askyourgran]

I didn't know the husband was there too. What are the US doing he's a U.S citizen isn't he.

[ladybirder]

Not a lot and yes he is a US citizen. I heard him on the television saying he went to the US Embassy 3 or 4 times to ask for help when she was in prison and he was turned away each time because they said they were too busy to see him. As I said they need to pull the finger out especially as they are now holding an American citizen. Apparently they are saying their papers which were issued by the South Sudanese government for them to leave Sudan are out of order but her lawyer says they're not. Round and round ...

[naomi24]

I’ll be very surprised if this ends happily – but I hope I’m wrong.

[ladybirder]

Latest: She's been released from custody, apparently to a 'safe' house, but can't leave the country. I'm holding my breath ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10929031/Meriam-Ibrahim-freed-from-custody-in-Sudan.html

[ladybirder]

Heard on BBC 10 o'clock news that she is safe in the USA Embassy in Khartoum.
Dare we hope?

[naomi24]

In the US embassy she's relatively safe - the question now is how does she get from there to freedom?

[sandyRoe]

Cardinal Mindszenty spent 15 years in the US embassy in Budapest.