Meriam Yahia Ibrahim escapes Sudan and arrives safely in Italy

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian doctor who was barred from leaving the country even after her death sentence for alleged ‘apostasy’ was quashed by the government, has arrived safely in Rome.

The surprise arrival in Italy of Meriam, her husband and two children, followed a month of uncertainty during which the Sudanese Government prohibited her leaving the country, claiming her travel documents were falsified. During that time she stayed in the American Embassy in Sudan.

Mrs Ibrahim was born and raised as a Christian by an Ethiopian family in Sudan and was later abducted by a Sudanese Muslim family.  She denied that her marriage to a Christian man with American citizenship was apostasy since she had never converted to Islam. She gave birth in a Sudanese prison with her legs chained together after her death sentence for 'apostasy' was imposed.  

Mrs Ibrahim escaped the country with her family in an Italian government plane.

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