And arrested again.
Sudanese mother sentenced to hang for 'marrying Christian' is RE-ARRESTED with husband just hours after she was freed for 'trying to flee the country'Meriam Ibrahim and her husband, US citizen Daniel Wani were held as they tried to fly out of the country
Couple and their children, Martin, 21 months and Maya, one month, were detained by around 40 National Security agents at Khartoum airport
Her lawyer told MailOnline: 'We don't have any information about what charges they face. But the National Security force does not have to take them to court'
It came just hours after she was released following international outcry
She had been sent to a safe house for 'protection'
Charges came after she married Christian U.S. Wani
She gave birth to a baby daughter just 12 days after she was jailed
Ms Ibrahim was also sentenced to 100 lashes for 'adultery' over her marriage
The woman who was put on death row in Sudan for marrying a Christian then freed after nine months in jail has been rearrested on Tuesday.
Meriam Ibrahim and her husband Daniel Wani were both held at an airport in the capital Khartoum as they apparently tried to flee the country.
Meriam, 27, a doctor, had only been released from prison yesterday - and going back to jail will cause her unimaginable agony.
Daniel’s arrest also creates a headache for the US government as he is an American citizen who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The couple were detained by around 40 security agents with their two children, Maya, one month, and Martin, 21 months.
Meriam's lawyer, Shareif Ali Shareif, told MailOnline: 'Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani were arrested at the airport two hours ago [about 1230GMT).
'They are now in the detention of the National Security forces.
'The family were trying to leave Sudan for a safe place.
'The children were with them. The children are with Meriam. They were arrested as well.
'We don't have any information about what charges they face. But the National Security force does not have to take them to court. This is not a criminal matter, it a national security matter.'
It comes just hours after a picture emerged of Meriam just after her release. The mother-of-two was seen holding her baby daughter Maya who was born in prison whilst she was shackled to the ground.
On her right is her husband Daniel, who beams proudly with Martin by his knee and the couple's legal team around them.
The photo was taken at the safe house where Meriam was hiding out.
Ms Ibrahim's lawyer Mohaned Mostafa said after her release she had been sent 'to an unknown house to stay at for her protection and security.'
'Her family had been threatened before and we are worried that someone might try to harm her,' he said.
In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah said that if Meriam was killed, it would have 'enforced God's word' because she broke sharia. He has threatened to kill her himself if she was not executed.
The 27-year-old woman was sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity. The case triggered an international outcry. She gave birth to a baby daughter while in prison.
'The appeal court ordered the release of Mariam Yahya and the cancellation of the (previous) court ruling,' Sudan's SUNA news agency said. The couple's 21-month-old son was also held in prison with Ms Ibrahim and newborn Maya.
Her lawyer Shareif Ali Shareif confirmed to MailOnline that she had been released after the court of appeal in Khartoum accepted her appeal and overturned the death sentence.
'She has been released from prison and she is on her way home with the children,' he said.
'She is very happy and the children are fine.
'Her husband Daniel Wani is overjoyed. He is so happy he is almost crying.'
Mr Wani’s brother Gabriel, who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire, said: 'If it’s true it is great news. Knowing him he will want to bring her back to America as soon as he can. I hope he can do that.’
It is not known whether the couple and their children were beginning their journey to the US when they were arrested. But a move to the States was demanded by charities and US politicians immediately after her release.
Tina Ramirez of Hardwired said there was to be a meeting on Tuesday between Meriam's lawyers and officials at the U.S. embassy in Sudan to discuss a potential move to America.
Senator Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, who had written letters to Secretary of State John Kerry demanding action to help free Meriam, welcomed the decision to release her - but had called for more action to help her.
He said: 'I am very pleased that the Sudanese court has reportedly cancelled Meriam Ibrahim’s death sentence and ordered her release.
'I continue to urge U.S. officials to work quickly and use all resources available to immediately provide Meriam and her family with safe haven in the United States'.
Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire and Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) had said on Monday in a joint statement: 'Meriam’s imprisonment and death sentence for exercising her fundamental right of religious freedom was deplorable and a gross violation of basic human rights.
'We will continue to work closely with Mr Wani to help ensure that Ms Ibrahim and her children are brought quickly and safely to the United States.'
Born to a Muslim father, she was convicted under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
She gave birth just 12 days after the verdict. It had been thought she was still shackled throughout the delivery and beyond, according to the rules which stipulate the treatment of death row inmates in Sudan.
But Mohanad Mustafa, one of Ms Ibrahim's lawyers, told AFP last week that jailers removed the chains after she gave birth to her daughter.
'This is on order by the doctor,' he said, adding that he didn't think the shackles would be put back on again.
'After she gave birth the conditions got better,' said Mr Mustafa. 'She has air conditioning. She has a good bed,' he said after he and Ms Ibrahim's Catholic husband, Daniel Wani, visited her.
Western governments and human rights groups have pressured the Sudanese to relase Ms Ibrahim.
European Union leaders earlier this month called for revocation of the 'inhumane verdict,' while Secretary of State John Kerry urged Khartoum to repeal its laws banning Muslims from converting.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the way she had been treated 'is barbaric and has no place in today's world.'
Ms Ibrahim, born in eastern Sudan's Gedaref state on November 3, 1987, is the daughter of a Sudanese Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, according to a statement from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum obtained last week by AFP.
Her father abandoned the family when she was five, and she was raised according to her mother's faith, it says.
'She has never been a Muslim in her life,' said the statement signed by Father Mussa Timothy Kacho, episcopal vicar for Khartoum. Miss Ibrahim joined the Catholic church shortly before she married the Mr Wani in December 2011, the vicar said.
Mr Wani was born in Khartoum but is now a U.S. citizen, the U.S. embassy confirmed to AFP last Tuesday.
The case against Ms Ibrahim dates from 2013 when 'a group of men who claim to be Meriam's relatives' filed an initial legal action, the vicar's statement said.
In fact, she had never seen those men before, the statement added, in comments confirmed by Mr Mustafa.
Ms Ibrahim, who is a trained doctor, and her husband own a barber shop, a mini-mart and an agricultural project in Gedaref, the vicar said.
Mr Mustafa did not know if there is a link between the businesses and the case against Ms Ibrahim, but he told AFP: 'Surely there is something behind this'.
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