8 Responses to “OMG! Meriam Ibrahim Ishaq, who was originally sentenced to death in Sudan for being a christian, was freed esterday and was re-arrested today at the airport. It is not clear what are the new charges. Morons of the US State department under Obama-Kerry regime still did not grant her and her children asylum, even though her husband is an American”

1. Sanburn
   June 24th, 2014 @ 4:20 pm

   God, Almighty! Does anyone want to ever vote democrat again, after reading all of the atrocities our govt allows?

2. courage
   June 25th, 2014 @ 11:42 am

   Her new charges are fraudulent documents. Her documents use her Christian name instead of her “suposedly” Muslim name! Go to: Christian Posts & click under US for the article. Article says her bail was posted by a friend who will also be in trouble if Mariam & fam try to leave Sudan…j

3. hope
   June 25th, 2014 @ 4:02 pm

   Sudan Charges Christian Mother Meriam Ibrahim With Fraud and Bans Her From Leaving; Advocate Says US Bungled Case

   “Christian mother Meriam Ibrahim, who was recently released from death row for being a Christian, was banned from leaving Sudan Tuesday after she was charged with fraud for trying to leave the country with documents bearing her Christian name and not the Muslim name she was assigned at birth.

   According to a MailOnline report, just hours after Ibrahim was relieved of the death sentence hanging over her head, she tried leaving the country Tuesday but was arrested and charged with falsifying travel documents.

   “It is understood that the authorities told her she should have used the Muslim name she had when she was born, not the Christian name she uses after choosing to worship that faith,” noted MailOnline.”

   Read more at:
   https://www.christianpost.com/news/sudan-charges-christian-mother-meriam-ibrahim-with-fraud-and-bans-her-from-leaving-advocate-says-u-s-bungled-case-122176/

4. hope
   June 25th, 2014 @ 6:58 pm

   Sudan charges Christian mom with using phony travel documents
   Perry Chiaramonte
   By Perry ChiaramontePublished June 25, 2014FoxNews.comFacebook483 Twitter201 livefyre183
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   Mariam Ibrahim with her husband Daniel Wani and children Martin and Maya along with their legal team following her release on Monday. She was arrested the next day at a Khartoum airport by Sudanese security agents.HardwiredGlobal.org
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   The Christian mom freed after being sentenced to death in Sudan is back in a Khartoum lockup for allegedly using phony documents in a bid to flee the Islamic nation.

   Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, was detained with her husband, Daniel Wani, at Khartoum airport Tuesday as she tried to leave the country. Although sources close to her legal team said she is being held at Khartoum police station, Seif Yasin, spokesman for the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, told FoxNews.com that Ibrahim is “free to leave Sudan, she just has to do it legally.”

   “It is regrettable and disturbing that some elements attempted to bring Meriam to U.S by issuing her an entry visa on a fraudulent traveling document obtained from a foreign country (for a woman the whole world knows … is [a] Sudanese national ),” Yasin said in a statement. “That is inexcusable and unnecessary violations for all laws and regulations, including U.S. ones. The same legal system that protects her right and secures her freedom is capable of guaranteeing her right to leave the country whenever the legal procedure comes to an end.”

   The U.S. State Department said Tuesday the detention was temporary and that American diplomats were working with their Sudanese counterparts to free Ibrahim, but a post on the Facebook page of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services’ media department indicated the charges are considered serious in the Muslim nation.

   “The airport passport police arrested Abrar after she presented emergency travel documents issued by the South Sudanese Embassy and carrying an American visa,” read the post, referring to Ibrahim by her Muslim family name. “The Sudanese authorities considered [the action] a criminal violation, and the Foreign Ministry summoned the American and South Sudanese ambassadors.”

   The travel document Ibrahim produced at the airport, an image of which was obtained by FoxNews.com, appears to have been issued by South Sudan, the largely Christian nation that seceded from Sudan in 2011 and is now at sharp odds with Khartoum. Alan Goulty, the former UK ambassador to Sudan and a Global Fellow for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said Wani, who holds U.S. citizenship, is from South Sudan, which could explain that nation’s diplomatic involvement.

   Al-Sharif Ali, a member of her legal team, told FoxNews.com Ibrahim was arrested in a show of force that included dozens of agents from the National Intelligence and Security Service. A source close to Ibrahim’s family said she is still being held, contrary to reports that she was freed.

   “As of this morning, she was still being held at the police station,” he said. “Her lawyer was able to finally see her.”

   On Wednesday, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf was again questioned about the case but declined to go into detail. She strongly denied that the U.S. played any role in providing improper paperwork to Ibrahim.

   “I can’t comment a lot more on the specifics of her travel documents,” Harf said. “Obviously we’re working with her and her family and the government of Sudan to try and get everything in proper order so she can and her family departs swiftly.”

   “It’s very much our position that they need to be able to depart Sudan quickly. I don’t have any more details on what their travel will look like,” She added during the briefing. “So, we clearly care about this very deeply…and are working very hard to resolve it.”

   Supporters of Ibrahim say they won’t feel she is safe until she is out of the war-torn nation.

   “We’re encouraged that the State Department is engaged and working to secure the freedom of Meriam and her family,” said Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, which gathered more than 300,000 signatures for an online petition demanding Ibrahim’s freedom. “Whether Meriam and her family have been ‘temporarily detained’ or arrested, holding U.S. citizens against their will is extremely disturbing and unacceptable. It has always been our concern that the only way the Ibrahim family could be truly safe is to leave Sudan.”

   Ibrahim, 27, refused to renounce her Christian faith in court in May, prompting a judge to sentence her to hang for apostasy. The case became an international cause, with several U.S. lawmakers and the State Department blasting the decision as barbaric. Sudan’s national news service SUNA said the Court of Cassation in Khartoum on Monday canceled the death sentence after defense lawyers presented their case, and that the court ordered her release.

   Ibrahim and Wani were married in a formal ceremony in 2011 and operate several businesses, including a farm, south of Khartoum, the country’s capital.

   Wani fled to the United States as a child to escape the civil war in southern Sudan, but later returned. He is not permitted to have custody of his son because the boy is considered Muslim and cannot be raised by a Christian man…..

   https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/25/christian-mom-back-in-sudan-jail-charged-with-using-phony-travel-documents/

5. hope
   June 26th, 2014 @ 9:54 am

   Sure looks like the U.S. IS walking on eggshells regarding Mariam Ibrahim and her family’s effort to leave Sudan a.s.a.p….

   washingtonfreebeacon
   20 hours ago

   State Dept Confirms Meriam Ibrahim is Under Arrest

   https://www.redflagnews.com/

6. hope
   June 26th, 2014 @ 11:11 am

   Report: Meriam Ibrahim freed again, to leave Sudan

   posted at 10:01 am on June 26, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

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   Needless to say, this one won’t be over until Meriam Ibrahim, her husband Daniel Wani, and their two children land in the US, so don’t take this as a final disposition by any means. According to the Daily Mail, the government in Sudan buckled under international pressure again and released the family this morning from fraud charges, allowing them to travel to South Sudan:

   The Christian mother who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to become a Muslim was finally freed today from her latest detention – and could now come to the US.

   Associated Press reported Meriam Ibrahim was freed after 48 hours in jail for problems with her paperwork that stopped her from leaving the African country.

   She is now set to fly to South Sudan and from there on to America where she could start her new life.

   Campaigners however have urged caution and said that they will wait until Meriam actually gets out of Sudan before celebrating.

   No kidding. At the moment, she’s still in Khartoum:

   Lawyers for Meriam Ibrahim, 27, said she was released from a police station in Khartoum upon pressure on the government from foreign diplomats.

   Antonella Napoli, the chairwoman of Ngo Italians for Darfur, told IBTimes UK that, according to local sources, Ibrahim was taken to a Khartoum safe house by local authorities upon release to keep her safe until formal procedures to allow her to leave the country were completed.

   What happened when she first left? NBC reports that Meriam’s brother pushed Sudanese police to take her back into custody:

   Authorities said she had been stopped because her travel documents were illegitimate. But in an interview with a Sudanese newspaper, her brother claimed he tipped off police that she had been “kidnapped” by her husband who planned to take her to the U.S. against her will.

   The brother, Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah, said that her blood relatives should have been told she was about to be released from death row – rather than her Christian husband. “They did not let us know that she was about to be freed,” he told Sudan’s Al Intibaha newspaper according to a translation by the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph. “It was a surprise for us.”

   Ibrahim’s initial charge for apostasy in August last year came after a family member told authorities she had converted from Islam to Christianity, which is punishable by death in Sudan. Her brother’s comments, published Wednesday, chime with earlier suggestions that the charges may have been part of a family feud stoked by differences of religion and attempts to seize her assets.

   That may not be the last attempt by her brother to keep her in Sudan, especially if this involves “assets,” which are unspecified in the report. Hopefully be now, this has become so embarrassing for the Sudanese government that they’re going to expedite her exit just to get this behind them, but that should have been the case on Monday — and the government sent 40 or more agents to arrest a young Christian mother traveling with two babies.

   This gives an indication of the hostility that practicing Christians experience in that region of the world, but not the extremes of the hostility and fear. Meriam Ibrahim may be fortunate enough to avoid those, assuming that Sudan finally allows her to leave. We’ll see.

   https://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/26/report-meriam-ibrahim-freed-again-to-leave-sudan/

7. hope
   June 26th, 2014 @ 11:17 am

   Meriam Ibrahim was ‘kidnapped’ and I went to police before she boarded flight to America, her brother says.

   Meriam Ibrahim’s brother says she was “kidnapped” on release from prison in Sudan, and went to the police before the family boarded flight to Washington
   Meriam Ibrahim holding her baby daughter Maya, with her legal team and, left, husband Daniel Wani and son Martin
   Meriam Ibrahim holding her baby daughter Maya, with her legal team and, left, husband Daniel Wani and son Martin Photo: AFP
   Harriet Alexander By Harriet Alexander2:56PM BST 25 Jun 2014
   The brother of the Sudanese woman who had her death sentence for apostasy overturned by the courts has claimed that she was “kidnapped” as soon as she set foot out of prison.
   Meriam Ibrahim walked free on Monday after six months in prison charged with apostasy – abandoning her Islamic faith. She maintains she was never a Muslim in the first place.
   The 27-year-old was about to board a flight out of Sudan with her husband and two children on Tuesday, when she was detained once more. Her husband Daniel Wani is an American citizen, and he said they were planning to travel to Washington DC. Sudanese media claimed that the US vice consul was with the family at the airport.
   “We are supposed to be there,” said Mr Wani, insisting there is nothing wrong with the travel documents. He told AFP: “We are worried. That’s why we want to get out of here as soon as possible.”
   Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah (Via CNN/SBS)
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   But now her brother, Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah, has claimed that Ms Ibrahim was “kidnapped” upon her release, and spirited away without her consent.
   He told Sudan’s Al Intibaha newspaper – founded by the uncle of President Omar Bashir – that she should have been shepherded to the family, and not her husband, when she left prison.
   “They did not let us know that she was about to be freed,” he said. “It was a surprise for us.”
   Mr Hadi said previously that she should be executed if she does not “return” to what he maintains is their family faith.
   He told CNN earlier this month: “It’s one of two; if she repents and returns to our Islamic faith and to the embrace of our family, then we are her family and she is ours.
   “But if she refuses she should be executed.”
   His comments poured fuel on the flickering suspicion that the charges were a thinly-disguised family feud, and that Ms Ibrahim’s relatives hoped to gain control over her successful businesses.
   And he said in the interview, published on Wednesday, that the courts had failed his family by clearing her of all charges.
   “Our family is not convinced by the decision of the court. The law has failed to maintain our rights, and now it is a matter of honour. Christians deface our honour, and we know how to take revenge for that.”
   The family’s lawyer, Abdulrahem Malik, told another regime-supporting newspaper, Al Sudani, that she was “disappeared into a Western embassy” on her release. And he said they were surprised at her attempts to leave the country, because her appeal verdict was not final.
   “She has no right to travel outside the country,” the lawyer said. “There have been no threats of revenge against her from members of her family, and she has no right to travel by law.
   “The appeals court decision is not final. Only if we do not appeal within 15 days is their ruling upheld.”
   The American authorities said on Tuesday night that they were confident the family were not in danger.
   “The government has assured us of their safety,” said Marie Harf, state department spokeswoman. “The embassy has and will remain highly involved in working with the family and the government.”

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10925293/Meriam-Ibrahim-was-kidnapped-and-I-went-to-police-before-she-boarded-flight-to-America-her-brother-says.html

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