HUMAN RIGHTS Canada accepts Asia Bibi and family as refugees*

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010, but freed after an appeal to Pakistan’s Supreme Court was upheld in 2018, has left Pakistan to live in Canada, after Islamist extremists threatened to murder her. Asia Bibi Apart from international pressure, Asia Bibi owes her freedom to her courageous lawyer, who himself has faced death threats for defending the Christian woman, the judges of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, who also faced death threats, and t…

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