KHARTOUM: Lawyers for a Sudanese Christian woman in hiding at the US embassy in Khartoum sought the dismissal of forgery charges against her so she can leave the country.
“We submitted our request” to prosecutors, Mohanad Mustafa, a lawyer for Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, said.
He added that it is unclear how long a decision could take.
“We have to wait,” Mustafa said.
Ishag is charged with forgery and providing false information in relation to a South Sudanese travel document she used previously to try to leave Sudan. If prosecutors throw out the case, Ishag, her American husband Daniel Wani and their two children will be able to travel, Mustafa said earlier.
The family took refuge in the US mission on Thursday after Ishag’s release from a police station where she had been held for two days, after security agents stopped them from travelling to the United States.
Ishag was released from prison last Monday when an appeals court overturned her death sentence and conviction for apostasy from Islam.
Sudan says Ishag should have used a Sudanese passport for her trip. Mustafa says she does not have such a document, but he expects authorities will provide her with one.
It is not confirmed, “but we discussed it with them and we think they will be cooperative”.AFP
