“Now she is with her husband and their children in the safe place,” said the lawyer.
He and other members of Ishag’s legal team have also received death threats.
Twelve days after the lower court issued its death sentence, Ishag gave birth to her baby daughter at the women’s prison in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, where she was shackled during pregnancy, Mustafa said.
Mervyn Thomas, chief executive of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), said the group was delighted that “the unjust, inhumane and unwarranted sentences have been annulled.”
But he said the British-based group, which works for religious freedom, was appalled at the “threats and hate speech.”
“Her alleged brother has publicly stated the family would carry out the death sentence should the court acquit her,” CSW said.
Muslim extremist groups had lobbied the Islamist government over Ishag’s case, prominent newspaper editor Khalid Tigani has said.
Amnesty International said she was released under international pressure, but Rabbie Abdelatti Ebaid, a senior official in Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party, denied that.
Muslim scholars have divergent opinions on the issue of changing religion, and “jurisprudence in Islam is very broad,” allowing for a solution, he told AFP.
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