Meriam Ibrahim has been arrested by police at Khartoum’s airport as she attempted to fly to the United States with her husband and two children. The BBC reports Mrs. Ibrahim and her family were taken from the airport to police headquarters in Khartoum on 24 June 2014, the day after an appeals court freed her from Omdurman’s Women’s prison after quashing her conviction of apostasy and adultery. The 27 year old had been sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and accept Islam, and had received an additional sentence of 100 lashes for the crime adultery for having married a Christian man
