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Sudanese Christian woman inside US embassy

By Mohamed Osman
Published June 27, 2014 2:34pm ET
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Sudanese Christian woman inside US embassy
FILE - In this file image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim breastfeeds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned was freed again on Thursday, June 26, 2014, after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File) | Uncredited

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned but who was detained again this week is now at the U.S. embassy for her own “safety,” her lawyer said on Friday.

ElShareef Ali Mohammed said that 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim left a Khartoum police station the night before where she had been detained along with her two children and husband on charges of forging travel documents. He added that she headed to the embassy for fear of “assault” either by relatives or angry residents.

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