“The appeal is rejected,” said judge Asif Saeed Khosa on Tuesday in Islamabad. Islamists had submitted the application after the court had lifted a the year of 2010, imposed a death sentence for blasphemy against Bibi. The judge’s decision Tuesday is likely to end the year-long legal dispute and the basis for Bibi to leave the country. Supported requested immediate permission to leave the country from Pakistan, because the Christian is in your home country in danger. The government refuses to disclose their whereabouts, Islamist extremists calling for her death.
Bibi’s lawyer, Saif-ul-Mulook hinted that his client could very soon be out of the country. “I don’t think she is currently here (in Pakistan) – but until tonight, I know,” he said in front of the court building.
Although the Supreme court spoke to Bibi from all the charges and imposed on them the death sentence lifted, she could not leave because of massive protests by Islamists in their home. The Islamists party, Tehreek-e-and excellence (TLP) reached with the government, to be allowed against the judgment in appeal.
asylum in Europe or North America
It is expected that Bibi applied for asylum in a European or North American country. As a possible host country for the Christian, Germany is also in the conversation. An unconfirmed report that their children have fled to Canada. The human rights organization Amnesty International said that Bibi should now come out freely together with your family and “safety in a country of your choice”.
The TLP, which had led demonstrations calling for Bibi’s execution, called on their followers, according to the court judgment of Tuesday, to hold for actions. One of the Red mosque in Islamabad-Islamist activist, Hafiz Ehtisham Ahmed, am close to the news Agency AFP said, Bibi deserve death according to the Islamic law of Sharia. Even in a foreign country, you will not be safe. “Live there no Muslims? Anyone can kill you there,” he added.
in The case of Bibi goes back in the year 2009. At the time, five times the mother was asked during her work on a field to get water. Several Muslim workers argued, however, that the water bowl should not touch as a Non-Muslim.
a Few days later, the women in a village Imam that Bibi had offensive about the prophet Muhammad expressed. This then went to the police, which launched an investigation into allegations of blasphemy. A court in the district of Nankana in the Central Pakistani province of Punjab, was sentenced in November 2010 to death by hanging.
International attention
Bibi dismissed the allegations against you. The sentence of death against them caused international outrage. Pope Benedict XVI had used in 2010 for Bibi’s release. 2015 met one of her daughters, Benedict’s successor, Francis. Blasphemy can be punished in a strictly conservative Islamic Pakistan with the death. Dozens of people serve there because of the accusations, according to estimates of the U.S. Committee for the freedom of religion a life-long prison sentences or awaiting execution. Especially the religious minorities, especially Christians, are affected. Again and again it comes to Lynching. (hvw/sda)
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