The Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned but who was detained again this week is now at the US embassy for her own “safety”.

A Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan and later freed has been detained at an airport while trying to leave the country, her lawyer said.

The brother of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christian faith after allegedly converting from Islam has said she should she be killed because his family are "Muslim people."