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November 5, 2018

Asia Bibi's blasphemy acquittal challenged by extremist group in Pakistan Supreme Court

The daughters of Asia Bibi, a Catholic accused of blasphemy, pose in 2010 with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura, Pakistan. The Oct. 31 acquittal of Bibi is being challenged in the country's Supreme Court, according to her husband.
MANCHESTER, England – The acquittal of a Pakistani Catholic woman sentenced to hang for blasphemy is to be challenged in the country's Supreme Court, according to her husband.
Published in International