Pakistan Acquits Catholic Mother of Five on Death Row for Blasphemy

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a Catholic mother who has been on death row for nearly a decade after her conviction on blasphemy charges. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar ordered the release of Asia Bibi, a mother of five who was sentenced to death in 2010 and placed in solitary confinement for allegedly contaminating a water jug, an insult to the prophet Muhammad. In 2009, Bibi found herself in a quarrel when she went to get water for herself and other farm workers and two Muslim women objected to drinking from a container used by a Christian.

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