Meriam Ibrahim’s case sparked international outrage after she was sentenced to death for “apostasy” and imprisoned while heavily pregnant with her second child. 
 
 When the 27-year-old went into labour she was refused access to a hospital, instead placed on a table with her legs still shackled. 
 
 Speaking for the first time about the ordeal on 27 May, she told CNN: “I was only thinking about my children and how I was going to give birth. I was most scared of giving birth in prison. 
 
 “I gave birth chained,” she said. “Not cuffs but chains on my legs. I couldn't even open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table.” 
 
 In this file image from an undated video Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to her 18-month-old son Martin, holds her newborn baby girl as an NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum Ms Ibrahim said that doctors had told her the circumstances of her birth and treatment in prison meant her daughter had been left physically disabled, with potentially long-lasting consequences. 
 
 “Something has happened to the baby,” she said. “I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not.” 
 
 Ms Ibrahim remains in limbo at the US embassy in Sudan, after the authorities stopped her leaving the country over charges travel documents provided to her, her husband and two children were “forged”. 
 
 She told CNN: “How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the embassy. It's 100 per cent correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador.” 
 
 While in prison, Ms Ibrahim said she was abused and harassed by guards and other inmates over her faith, and visited by a series of different sheikhs trying to persuade her to convert. Meriam Ibrahim was later detained trying to flee Sudan 
 
 Despite being brought up a Christian, a court in Sudan determined that she was actually a Muslim because her father was a Muslim. It therefore ruled it illegal for her to marry her Christian husband Daniel Wani under Sudanese laws. 
 
 Meriam Ibrahim with her husband Daniel Wani US officials say diplomats are now trying to arrange for Ms Ibrahim and her family to depart from Sudan. 
 
 Mr Wani, who holds American citizenship as well as being a citizen of South Sudan, said authorities accused his wife of forging the documents as a pretext to justify her detention “without an arrest warrant”. 
 
 “Does it make sense that we try to fly all the way to the United States with forged passports?” he said. They were arrested and detained for two days at Khartoum airport where the family was departing the country, a day after Sudan's Cassation Court overturned a death sentence against Ms Ibrahim and ordered her release. ||||| (CNN) -- What a week it's been for Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman who initially faced a death sentence after refusing to renounce her faith. 
 
 She thought she was finally free Monday after a higher court ordered her release. A day later, she was back in police custody. 
 
 Now she faces a new charge, accused of falsifying travel documents, and has taken refuge in a safe house in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, amid concerns for her security. 
 
 In a phone interview with CNN, Ibrahim spoke of the ordeal of giving birth while in prison, her fears for her family and how she is facing a future full of unknowns. 
 
 Asked how she felt in prison, refused access to a hospital as the birth of her child neared, Ibrahim said, "I was only thinking about my children and how I was going to give birth. I was mostly scared of giving birth in prison." 
 
 The 27-year-old had reason to be alarmed. 
 
 "I gave birth chained. Not cuffs but chains on my legs. I couldn't open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table. I wasn't attached to the table," she said. 
 
 Doctors fear that the circumstances of the baby's birth may have lasting consequences. 
 
 "I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not," said Ibrahim. 
 
 She her husband, American Daniel Wani, were freed from custody Thursday after having been detained two days earlier upon arriving at the airport in Khartoum. They were trying to fly with their baby and toddler son to the United States. 
 
 Now they are waiting to see what happens in light of the latest allegations against Ibrahim, of traveling with falsified documents and giving false information. 
 
 "I'm currently in a safe place. It's definitely safe but not comfortable," Ibrahim said. 
 
 Sudanese Christian woman is in U.S. Embassy in Sudan 
 
 Persecuted as a 'nonbeliever' 
 
 Ibrahim's ordeal started when one of her relatives, a Muslim, filed a criminal complaint saying her family was shocked to find out she had married Wani, a Christian, after she was missing for several years. 
 
 A Sudanese court considered Ibrahim a Muslim because her father was Muslim. She was charged with adultery, because a Muslim woman's marriage to a Christian man is illegal in Sudan. She was also charged with apostasy, accused of illegally renouncing what was alleged to be her original faith. 
 
 Convicted while about eight months pregnant, she gave birth about two weeks later in a women's hospital in Khartoum. 
 
 She insists she has never been a Muslim -- and says she was persecuted as a Christian while in prison. 
 
 "I've always been Christian. I couldn't have been Muslim with the things they say and the way they treat me -- with a different sheikh coming to speak to me every other time and women in prison saying all sorts of things, like 'don't eat the nonbeliever's food' and calling me a Christian," she said. "There was all this talk and even the officers in the prison would join (in)." 
 
 A string of people, from politicians to humanitarian workers to lawmakers, came to visit while she was locked up with promises to help, she said, but none offered any real assistance. Eventually, following weeks of international controversy over her conviction for apostasy and adultery, it was overturned. 
 
 Ibrahim: My paperwork was '100% correct' 
 
 Now, the Sudanese authorities have accused Ibrahim of trying to leave without the correct paperwork. Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services said that she had South Sudanese travel documents despite not being a citizen of South Sudan, and she was heading to the United States, which is not her native country. 
 
 But she is adamant that she "never forged any papers" and was entitled to travel on the documents she had. 
 
 "How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the embassy. It's 100% correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador," she said. 
 
 "The South Sudanese embassy took responsibility and released the papers. It's in my right to use the papers and have a South Sudanese passport because my husband is a South Sudanese citizen. He has an American passport and South Sudanese passport." 
 
 Ibrahim had also been given a U.S. visa. 
 
 She described as "terrorizing" the way that Sudanese police officers took her and her husband, who uses a wheelchair, from the VIP departures hall as they waited to check in for their flight. 
 
 "We were scared and wondering what was wrong. They locked us in that room for four to five hours and the whole time we were trying to figure out what the problem was," she said. 
 
 She claims that the charges were filed in court before the police even investigated the claims against her and her husband. When they finally figured out what the alleged offense was, she was shocked, Ibrahim said. 
 
 "I can't even decide what I should do right now. I want to travel but at the same time I don't want to travel. But the state I'm in right now means that I'm forced to. There's a new problem every day about me leaving." 
 
 Asked if the authorities were trying to make life difficult for her, Ibrahim replied, "I don't know what their problem is." 
 
 Faith in her husband 
 
 Ibrahim simply hopes that she can leave, together with her husband and their children. 
 
 "That's exactly what I want. Not anything more," she said. 
 
 But despite her experiences so far, she insists that she is not scared. She will put her faith in her husband, Ibrahim said, and count on him to protect the family. 
 
 "If anything happens to us, he's responsible for us in the face of everyone else. This is protection and better for us. I'll go wherever he takes us, it's not a problem." 
 
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 Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy, has said the baby daughter she gave birth to while shackled to the floor of her prison cell could be disabled. 
 
 Talking for the first time since she was released from prison last week – only to be detained as she and her family attempted to leave the country – Ibrahim, 27, said she gave birth in chains and could not open her legs. Asked if she was scared something would happen to the baby during the delivery, she replied: "Something has happened to the baby … I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not." 
 
 Describing how she felt when she was sentenced to death, Ibrahim said: "I was only thinking about my children and how I was going to give birth. I was really scared of giving birth in prison." 
 
 Ibrahim spoke by phone to CNN from what she described as a safe place – the US embassy in Khartoum – following her detention at the city's airport two days after her convictions for apostasy and adultery were quashed and she was released from prison. 
 
 "To be honest, I'm really miserable. I left prison to bring together my children and settle down … and now there are protests against me in the streets," she said. 
 
 Ibrahim, her husband, Daniel Wani, who is a US citizen, and their two children were waiting to check in for a flight when they were stopped by 10 to 15 security officers, she said. 
 
 "We were scared and wondering what was wrong. They locked us in that room for four to five hours and the whole time we were trying to figure out what the problem was," she said. 
 
 When the officials, who told Ibrahim they were from the National Intelligence and Security Service, questioned the couple, "we realised that the problem was our travel documents". 
 
 Ibrahim was accused of possessing forged travel documents, although South Sudan said it had issued the papers. 
 
 "It's my right to use the papers and have a South Sudanese passport because my husband is a South Sudanese citizen. He has an American passport and South Sudanese passport," she said. "I never forged any papers. I was given the papers by the South Sudanese embassy because I deserve it. It's my right to have papers like these because my husband is South Sudanese." 
 
 She appeared unclear about her intentions. "I can't even decide what I should do right now. I want to travel but at the same time I don't want to travel … There's a new problem every day about me leaving." 
 
 Her lawyer, Elshareef Mohammed, earlier said the family were boarding a plane to the US when they were detained. 
 
 Ibrahim, the daughter of a Muslim man and a Christian woman, was convicted of apostasy despite insisting to the court that she had been brought up as a Christian since her father left the family when she was six. Her marriage to Wani was declared invalid and she was convicted of adultery and sentenced to 100 lashes. 
 
 Her convictions, sentences and detention in Omdurman's women's prison while heavily pregnant and with her toddler son incarcerated alongside her caused international outrage. More than a million people backed an Amnesty International campaign to get her released. 
 
 "I've always been Christian," she told CNN. "I couldn't have been Muslim and not go back, with all the things they said and the way they treat me – with a different sheikh coming to speak to me every other time and women in prison saying all sorts of things like 'don't eat the nonbeliever's food' and calling me a Christian. There was all this talk and taunts. Even the officers in the prison would join in."
– "Something has happened to the baby," says Meriam Ibrahim, in her first recounting of giving birth to her daughter on the floor of a Sudanese prison cell. "I don't know in the future whether she'll need support to walk or not." Ibrahim is now in limbo at a safe house in Khartoum, worried that the child may suffer permanent physical disability, the Guardian reports. “I gave birth chained. Not cuffs but chains on my legs. I couldn't even open my legs so the women had to lift me off the table.” The 27-year-old—convicted for apostasy while eight months pregnant—was denied access to a hospital when she went into labor in prison last month. Doctors have told Ibrahim that her treatment in prison—she says guards and inmates harassed and abused her—could have had negative effects on the child, reports the Independent. Ibrahim has been freed once again after being detained at the airport as she and her husband tried to catch a flight to the US after her death sentence for refusing to renounce her Christianity was overturned. Ibrahim insists her travel documents are not forged as Sudanese officials have claimed. “How can my paperwork be wrong? My paperwork came from the embassy. It's 100% correct and it was approved by the South Sudan ambassador and the American ambassador,” she tells CNN. Ibrahim has been charged with falsifying documents; diplomats are working to get Ibrahim and husband Daniel Wani, who is a US and Sudanese citizen, out of Sudan.