Asia Bibi: Protests delay release of Christian woman accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

[TomSea]

Asia Bibi: Protests delay release of Christian woman accused of blasphemy in Pakistan
Radical Islamists want Ms Bibi publicly hanged, while one cleric urges his supporters to kill the three judges who acquitted her.
10:49, UK,
Friday 02 November 2018

By Lucia Binding, news reporter

The release of a Pakistani Christian woman who was acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy has been delayed.

Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad in a dispute with her neighbours.

The mother-of-three, 47, has always maintained her innocence - but has spent the majority of the past eight years in solitary confinement.

Read more at: https://news.sky.com/story/asia-bibi-protests-delay-release-of-christian-woman-accused-of-blasphemy-in-pakistan-11542356

[rustynail]

Guess who wins.

[TomSea]

The reason it's being delayed is these protesters are blocking streets around the prison, I saw pictures.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/protests-continue-for-third-day-after-aasia-bibis-acquittal/ar-BBPfHK4

How ridiculous, it's hard NOT to be Islamaphobic.

Some articles also seemed to infer that per the Caste system (which I thought was in India primarily), she might be something of an "untouchable"... but I would have to read the articles closer.  No claim of expertise here.

[goodwithagun]

The reason it's being delayed is these protesters are blocking streets around the prison, I saw pictures.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/protests-continue-for-third-day-after-aasia-bibis-acquittal/ar-BBPfHK4

How ridiculous, it's hard NOT to be Islamaphobic.

Some articles also seemed to infer that per the Caste system (which I thought was in India primarily), she might be something of an "untouchable"... but I would have to read the articles closer.  No claim of expertise here.

Calling out a cult for their inhumane, archaic behavior is not a phobia.