ISLAMABAD – A close friend of Bibi and rights campaigner Aman Ullah hasclaimed, as quoted by *The Guardian*, that Pakistani authorities had movedAsia Bibi to a new “secure area” and are banning her from leaving thecountry.
The rights campaigner reportedly insisted on the fact that he had spokenwith the woman on the phone and stated that Bibi had been transportedfrom a location near the capital to a house in the southern port cityof Karachi, where she and her husband are being kept.[image: Pakistani protesters burn a poster image of Christian woman AsiaBibi, who has spent eight-years on death row accused of blasphemy andacquitted by a Supreme Court, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 1,2018]Meanwhile, a week ago German newspaper *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*reported,quoting lawyer Saif-ul-Malook that the woman had already arrived in Canadawith her husband and united with her family.
According to AP, Pakistani Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has notedthat Bibi is both free inside Pakistan and free to leave it, saying “she isliving with her family and given requisite security for safety”.[image: Suman Pawan Bodani]He reportedly said that the government was responsible for taking “allpossible measures” to protect her and her family, adding that “she is afree citizen after her release from jail and can move anywhere in Pakistanor abroad”.
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In late October, the Pakistani Supreme Court acquitted Bibi, a motherof five who was sentenced to capital punishment in 2010 for insulting theProphet Muhammad during a row with Muslim neighbours and has beenin custody since them. The insults were reportedly made after the Muslimwomen said that her faith made a cup she had used “unclean”.
