Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2010. An appeal to the high court was rejected last October. No date had been set for the execution.
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By Sophia Saifi / Adeel Raja | July 22, 2015
Pakistan's Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear an appeal by a Christian woman who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy.
A three-member panel of Supreme Court judges in Lahore said it would consider the appeal and ordered that the death sentence for Asia Bibi be stayed, according Bibi's lawyer, Saiful Malook.
She was convicted of blasphemy in 2010. An appeal to the high court was rejected last October. No date had been set for the execution.
Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during a 2009 argument with Muslim fellow field workers. The workers had refused to drink from a bucket of water she had touched because she was not Muslim. [more ...]
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