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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed Oct 31, 2018, 04:47 AM Oct 2018

Asia Bibi: Pakistan court overturns blasphemy death sentence [View all]

Pakistan’s supreme court has struck down the death sentence for blasphemy handed down to Christian woman Asia Bibi, in a long-delayed, landmark decision that has seen the judiciary praised for its bravery in the face of threats of violence and protest from the country’s Islamist groups.
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The Christian farm labourer, a 47-year-old mother of four, was sentenced to hang for blasphemy in 2010. She had angered fellow Muslim farm workers by taking a sip of water from a cup she had fetched for them on a hot day. When they demanded she convert to Islam, she refused, prompting a mob to later allege that she had insulted the prophet Mohammed.
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On Wednesday morning protests were already growing across the country. TLP workers have descended outside the Punjab assembly in Lahore, while others have gathered to block roads in Karachi. More have returned to the Faizabad interchange in Islamabad, the site of a three-week long protest camp held by the party last year that crippled the capital.

The TLP chief, Afzal Qadri, said that all three judges are now liable for death.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/31/asia-bibi-verdict-pakistan-court-overturns-blasphemy-death-sentence

Things could get ugly very quickly. This was the case in which a governor was murdered just for saying "maybe we need to reform our blasphemy law" - and huge crowds (and hundreds of lawyers) said the murderer was a hero (he was, however, executed).
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