Posted on 01/29/2019 5:40:44 PM PST by marshmallow
Hardliners were trying to get the court to reverse its October decision to overturn Bibi's conviction
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi on blasphemy charges.
The country’s top court upheld its decision to overturn Bibi’s conviction and death sentence in October. She was originally convicted in 2010 for allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Mohammed during an argument with her neighbours.
Her acquittal in October set off violent protests across Pakistan and hardliners submitted a petition for the Supreme Court to review its verdict.
However, chief justice Asif Saeed Khosar said on Tuesday: “Based on merit, this petition is dismissed.”
Asia Bibi is currently in hiding in Pakistan.
Human rights campaigner Lord Alton of Liverpool praised the court’s “very welcome and courageous” decision.
“I feel huge admiration for the Supreme Court justices who, by taking this decision, have been willing to put the rule of law above every other consideration,” Lord Alton said.
“We cannot forget that Asia Bibi’s case is one of many, and that, by some estimates, more than 70 people are currently on death-row for alleged blasphemy crimes.
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and she’s going to ,you guessed it Canada
I’m glad this poor woman will finally be able to escape Pakistan and live in peace in the West.
Dollar to a donut some islamiot takes her head in Canada.
Juju Trudeau loves him some islam.
Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.
[Robert Heinlein, “Notebooks of Lazarus Long,” from Time Enough for Love (1973).]
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