The US says it is working with Sudan to ensure a woman freed from death row can leave the country, after she was detained at Khartoum airport.<\/p>\n
Meriam Ibrahim’s lawyer says she and her husband are being questioned over their travel documents. It is thought they were trying to fly to the US.<\/p>\n
She was sentenced in May to hang for renouncing Islam – sparking an outcry – but was released from jail on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mrs Ibrahim’s husband is a Christian from South Sudan and is a US citizen.<\/p>\n
Security agents detained Mrs Ibrahim, husband Daniel Wani and two children at the airport on Tuesday, her lawyer, Thabit Suliman, said.<\/p>\n
“The security authorities have not stated why she was apprehended and they are still being held in a security building at the airport,” the lawyer added.<\/p>\n
US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Sudan’s government had given assurances that Mrs Ibrahim and her family were safe.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a top Sudanese official told the BBC that although Mrs Ibrahim is Sudanese, she was using emergency South Sudanese papers with a US visa.<\/p>\n
She would be asked to get a passport and exit visa on her release, Abdullahi Alzareg from the ministry of foreign affairs said.<\/p>\n
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Credit: BBC<\/p>\n
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