Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Asia Bibi still has not left Pakistan

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A week after Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted her of blasphemy, a Christian woman who had been on death row for eight years accused of blasphemy has still not been able to leave Pakistan.

Asia Bibi was freed from detention last Thursday, but her whereabout­s are a closely guarded secret following demands by extremists that she be hanged in public.

Bibi remains with her family under heavy security after being transferre­d to the Pakistani capital from her detention facility in southern Punjab.

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