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Sudanese “apostate” arrested at airport one day after her release
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A Sudanese Christian woman was arrested Tuesday at Khartoum airport a day after a court annulled her death sentence for #apostasy and released her from prison, a source familiar with the incident said. “The National Security took her and Daniel,” said the source, referring to Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, and her American husband Daniel Wani. The status of their two young children, one a newborn baby, was not immediately known. (AFP)

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Last two Sudanese detainees released from Guanatanamo
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US soldiers help Sudanese #Guantanamo prisoner Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris to come out of a US military plane at Khartoum airport as he is repatriated following his release from the Cuba-based US prison on December 19, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ebrahim Hamid)

The last Sudanese prisoners to be released from US detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba arrived home Thursday, as US President Barack Obama accelerates efforts to close the controversial facility. US military personnel helped Mohammed Noor Uthman and Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris onto the exit stairway of a US Air Force transport plane after it landed in Khartoum. The United States announced on Wednesday that it had transferred the two men from the controversial prison at a US naval base on the southeastern tip (...)

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