Sudanese Christian woman jailed over travel documents now at U.S. embassy

KHARTOUM, Sudan, June 27 (UPI) -- Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman sentenced to death for apostasy who was freed Monday and then detained along with her family at a Khartoum police station over a travel papers "irregularity," arrived Friday at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum.

The U.S. Department of State acknowledged earlier in the week that it was helping to facilitate the travel of Ibrahim, her American citizen husband, and two young children to the U.S.

Now that she and her family are at the embassy, it is unclear what will happen next.

Ibrahim told the BBC on Friday, "I will leave it to God."

The family was released from jail on Thursday after posting bail, but were not allowed to leave Sudan.

The pair and their two young children were detained Monday at the airport because of an "alleged irregularity with her documentation" as the family attempted to fly to the U.S. hours after her release from prison, where she had been sentenced to death for apostasy.

They were then taken to a police station in Khartoum, where her legal team said she was charged with attempting to travel to the U.S. on falsified documents and giving false information, while her husband was accused of being an accomplice.

The State Department insists Ibrahim's paperwork is in order, and that it's now up to the Sudanese government to let her exit.