{"id":4235,"date":"2014-07-18T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:53:27","slug":"dropping-of-a-lawsuit-may-finally-free-sudanese-christian-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/dropping-of-a-lawsuit-may-finally-free-sudanese-christian-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping of a lawsuit may finally free Sudanese Christian woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s renewed hope Thursday that Meriam Ibrahim, 27, sentenced to death in Sudan for marrying a Christian and later freed from prison by an appeals court, will be allowed to travel to the United States with her American husband.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a lawsuit brought by her Sudanese father to establish her as both a Muslim and his daughter, was dropped, according to Reuters. If successful, it might have blocked her departure. Her lawyer told Reuters that it could finally allow her and her family to leave the North African nation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2014\/07\/dropping_of_a_lawsuit_may_fina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s renewed hope Thursday that Meriam Ibrahim, 27, sentenced to death in Sudan for marrying a Christian and later freed from prison by an appeals court, will be allowed to travel to the United States with her American husband. On Wednesday, a lawsuit brought by her Sudanese father to establish her as both a Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,1684,463,257,4694,2908,254,4708,1613,2909],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-meriam-ibrahim","tag-muslim","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sentenced-to-death-in-sudan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-travel-to-the-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}