Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday freed a Christian woman from a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam and overturned her conviction, sparking angry protests and death threats from an ultra-Islamist party and cheers from human rights advocates.


Asia Bibi, a mother of four, had been living on death row since 2010, when she became the first woman to be sentenced to death by hanging under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws, which critics say are too harsh and often misused.

She was condemned for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbors objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim. Bibi has always denied committing blasphemy.

The case has outraged Christians worldwide, Pope Francis said he personally prayed for Bibi and has been a source of division within Pakistan, where two politicians who sought to help Bibi were assassinated.




https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blasphemy/protests-after-pakistan-frees-christian-woman-sentenced-to-death-over-blasphemy-idUSKCN1N42YK

In overturning her conviction, the ruling said the evidence against Bibi was insufficient.

Bibi did not appear in the courtroom and her whereabouts were a closely held secret for fear of attacks on her and her family.





Supporters of Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) immediately condemned Wednesday’s ruling and blocked roads in major cities, pelting police with stones in the eastern city of Lahore.

Street protests and blockades of major roads were spreading by mid-afternoon, paralyzing parts of Islamabad, Lahore and other cities.

One of the TLP’s top leaders called for the death of Nisar, the chief justice, and the two other judges on the panel.



“They all three deserve to be killed. Either their security should kill them, their driver kill them, or their cook kill them,” TLP co-founder Muhammad Afzal Qadri told a protest in Lahore.

“Whoever, who has got any access to them, kill them before the evening.”

Truly, Jesus is Lord! This is justice

Let them go to hell, blood thirsty demons.

I don't know why these people are so wicked, They even assassinated two people who wanted to help her. Please Bibi should be taken out of that country as soon as possible, She's not safe there.

Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!

What is wrong with all these mohammedians? Whicb kain religion of peace be dis?

Is that a strange new when Islam is concerned? That is the peace they give the world

Are there still laws on blasphemy? Stone age men ... will only take them serious when they go naked on horses protesting. Nuking Pakistan enmasse on my mind. No time for rag heads.

They are always peaceful.let no one be troubled about the protest,they are just peaceful way of showing happiness.

If I were that woman I would not think twice before leaving Pakistan.
She should not stay in that country.Those extremist are very violent their level of illiteracy,religious violence and backwardness cannot not be compared to any other region elsewhere.Some parts of the Arab world is a dangerous place for enlightened people to live in.

The true define word for lslam: lslam equal violent...it would violating your right to lives,your right to be who wanted to be and even how to piss..a bondage religion.

Explorers:
In overturning her conviction, the ruling said the evidence against Bibi was insufficient.

Bibi did not appear in the courtroom and her whereabouts were a closely held secret for fear of attacks on her and her family.





Supporters of Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) immediately condemned Wednesday’s ruling and blocked roads in major cities, pelting police with stones in the eastern city of Lahore.

Street protests and blockades of major roads were spreading by mid-afternoon, paralyzing parts of Islamabad, Lahore and other cities.

One of the TLP’s top leaders called for the death of Nisar, the chief justice, and the two other judges on the panel.



“They all three deserve to be killed. Either their security should kill them, their driver kill them, or their cook kill them,” TLP co-founder Muhammad Afzal Qadri told a protest in Lahore.

“Whoever, who has got any access to them, kill them before the evening.”

this is highly inflammatory.

Blood suckers...
Such country should be nuked fast to avoid spread of their stupidity...
Imagine, a woman God set free they are still fighting to oppose...
God will send an angel of death accross that county...

The court said there wasn't enough
evidence to convict her probably because
it was just one person's word against
her own.

Yet, these animals are insisting she must
be killed.

religious fanaticism is a common trait of most islamists. how they have been brain washed and are still being brainwashed surprises me. islam is a religion of peace yet every perceived wrong doing is has a death clause attached to it.

These islamists want an innocent woman dead because of blasphemy A Religion of peace indeed

Blood suckers .

Ladyhippolyta88:
If I were that woman I would not think twice before leaving Pakistan.
She should not stay in that country.Those extremist are very violent their level of illiteracy,religious violence and backwardness cannot not be compared to any other region elsewhere.Some parts of the Arab world is a dangerous place for enlightened people to live in.

She has to seek asylum in some sane countries, some of these brainwashed fanatics might be planning to carry out jungle justice on her

SeverusSnape:
Let them go to hell, blood thirsty demons.

I don't know why these people are so wicked, They even assassinated two people who wanted to help her. Please Bibi should be taken out of that country as soon as possible, She's not safe there.

I agree with you. Heartless people.

islam is really a religion of peace, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, turkey, syria, yemen, and northern nigeria are examples of how peaceful islamic states are

Chrisbeks:

She has to seek asylum in some sane countries, some of these brainwashed fanatics might be planning to carry out jungle justice on her

Yes oo.
Even malala yousafzai fled that country after the failed attempt on her life by the taliban.I am sure some countries would help her.

very peaceful

Generalkaycee:
Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!

if you see a jihadist dey know how to identify thierself always behaving like their rams

Everyday they blaspheme Christ saying he is not the son of God, but no one cares. A Muslim can insult Jesus today and a Christian will only say God bless you or may God forgive,if a Christian says Mohammed is not the prophet of Allah they will draw dagger and sword.
The Christian believe God will fight for him but a Muslim believes he can fight for his God.
If Muslim's could learn to be tolerant like the Christians then the world will be a better place for both religions.

may God bless Donald trump as he's currently playing this lunatics with the same coin

That woman along with her family should leave Pakistan or they will be bombed to ashes.

Lol.

I expect this thread to get shut down soon. After all it's a religious thread in the pious who claim peaceful and yet ready to behead a woman because of a statement they didn't like forgetting the fact that they already hated her because she wasn't of the same belief as them.

Islamic fundamentalist are a problem to the world I am sorry to say once life is not sacred by your religion then it is rubbish as far as I am concerned. Who gave you Lee way to kill , by what rights do you judge, are you God.

Yet the claim peace, death over a glass tumbler.

Woman flee Pakistan and seek asylum anywhere in the world even trump would Grant you in front of the white house lawn.

The woman should better leave the country ASAP with her family, or else, they will find her and kill her.

They don't forgive there!

wat is the problem of this Islamist why do they like killing like this everything about them is blood blood after dey will say there are religion of peace romve Islamist from the world and see there will be peace

see the bunch of murdering idiots, why not allow your god to come and fight for himself.

Beauty of an independent judiciary! Last hope of the common man indeed

When I read the news at aljazeera, my hrt was broken. These guys have killed two people already, including a governor cos they were trying to defend her. Now they are also threatening to kill the judge that set her free.