Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for a blasphemy conviction before she was exonerated last year, has fled to Canada and reunited with her family, her lawyer said Wednesday.
A supporter of a Pakistani Islamist party stands on an image of Christian woman Asia Bibi during a protest against her acquittal of blasphemy charges in November 2018.
“She left Pakistan last night and has safely landed at Canada, where she is with her family,” lawyer Saiful Malook told The Times.Malook said Bibi and her husband, Ashiq Masih, left Pakistan together. Their children had fled to Canada earlier for security reasons. Lawyers and Pakistani authorities were withholding details of the family’s new location to protect them, they said.
Bibi, who is from a village about 50 miles west of the city of Lahore, was a farm laborer who got into an argument in 2009 with two Muslim women who objected to her drinking water from the same well. A mob later accused Bibi of insulting the prophet Muhammad, which equates to blasphemy and is a capital offense in Pakistan.
The Supreme Court last October threw out Bibi’s conviction, saying there was “no evidence to support the charge.”
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