Aasia Bibi accepts the international asylum offer, likely to leave country soon: Report
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ISLAMABAD - Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy gets an international asylum offer.
She is moving to Canada after accepting an offer of asylum by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, reported HuffPost link .
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the review petition of its October 31, 2018 verdict of acquitting Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in a blasphemy case, saying that the petitioner was unable to pinpoint any mistake in the earlier verdict.
Bibi is expected to land in Canada this week to join two of her daughters, who were flown out earlier this month.
The Trudeau government has the support of Canada’s opposition Conservative Party, who have urged him to “use every mechanism at his disposal to offer the Bibi family asylum”.
In November Trudeau told reporters while in Paris: “There is a delicate domestic context that we respect which is why I don’t want to say any more about that, but I will remind people Canada is a welcoming country,” he added.
Bibi spent years in solitary confinement after an argument with a group of Muslim women in June 2009, who accused her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. But in October Pakistan’s supreme court overturned her conviction, saying the case against her was based on flimsy evidence.
