ICC Note:

It’s been seven long years for Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for allegedly committing blasphemy. However, it seems that this long trial my finally be coming to an end in the next month. According to Bibi’s lawyer, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has scheduled to hear her final appeal in the second week of October. Over the last seven years, Bibi and her family have been at the center of one of Pakistan’s most religiously charged criminal cases. According to her Muslim coworkers, Bibi blasphemed the prophet Muhammad. Despite weak evidence, Bibi was sentenced to death by the Pakistani court system. Will the Supreme Court finally provide Bibi with the fair trial she has been waiting seven long years for? 

9/9/2016 Pakistan (Grand Lake News) – Seven years ago, Asia Bibi was arrested and found guilty of blasphemy in Pakistan. Asia is a Christian mother with two natural children and three adopted children.

Her crime was offering a drink of water to a Muslim, and explaining Jesus was alive.

In Pakistan, the blasphemy law allows even a single Muslim to accuse a Christian of blasphemy, and the Pakistani court will side with the testimony of the Muslim. The penalty for blasphemy is death by hanging.

Asia was tossed in prison, and her children have grown seven years without a mother. Asia’s husband has done his best to raise the children and avoid any trouble with radicals out to persecute Christians.

He, also, has had a long seven years with Asia waiting for an appeal. The one and only Christian elected to Pakistan’s parliament spoke out on Asia’s behalf many times, until he was shot dead for supporting Asia!

But there is some good news. During the past seven years, the Pakistani court system has grown weary of all the blasphemy cases, and they have started revising the blasphemy law.

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