Upholding the acquittal verdict it first delivered in October, the Supreme Court of Pakistan determined Tuesday that Asia Bibi was not guilty of blaspheming Mohammed…
Upholding the acquittal verdict it first delivered in October, the Supreme Court of Pakistan determined Tuesday that Asia Bibi was not guilty of blaspheming Mohammed in 2009 and is finally free to leave the country after a decade of imprisonment.
“I am really [grateful] to everybody, now after nine years it is confirmed that I am free and I will be going to hug my daughters,” a friend quoted Bibi as saying, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Bibi’s daughters recently fled to Canada on asylum. (RELATED: Asia Bibi’s Lawyer Returns To Pakistan For Her Blasphemy Trial)
The verdict gives closure to three months of political turmoil that has engulfed Pakistan since the high court first sought to exonerate the Pakistani Catholic woman on a 2010 blasphemy charge. Slandering the prophet of Islam is a capital offense in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
