Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, the sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing the muslim faith is now free and reunited with her husband after getting out of custody, said her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa El-Nour. An appeals court found that an initial judgment against her was faulty, he said.
The Lawyer however declined to elaborate.
Meriam Ibrahim was convicted of apostasy, or the renunciation of faith, and sentenced to die by hanging in May while she was eight months pregnant. In addition to the death sentence, the court convicted her of adultery and sentenced her to 100 lashes.
Meriam gave birth to a girl in a prison in the capital of Sudan last month, two weeks after she was sentenced to 100 lashes and to die by hanging.
Her husband, Daniel Wani, uses a wheelchair and "totally depends on her for all details of his life," her lawyer said.
She was in the women's prison with her 20-month-old son, but Sudanese officials said the toddler was free to leave at any time, according to her lawyer.
Her sentence had drawn international condemnation from human rights groups and foreign embassies in Khartoum, including those of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
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