Meriam Ibrahim is currently safe at the U.S. embassy in Sudan

Published June 27, 2014 4:11pm ET



Meriam Ibrahim, the 27-year-old Sudanese woman who was released this week after being sentenced to death for leaving Islam, is “safe and well” at the U.S. embassy in Sudan, according to her husband.

Ibrahim’s husband Daniel Wani, a U.S.-South Sudan resident, told Agence France-Presse that embassy staff had been “very helpful and very nice.”

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