Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday announced the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy in a case that has roiled the country.<\/p>\n
In the courtroom, it took less a minute for the chief justice, Saqib Nisar, to upturn a series of legal rulings that had kept Bibi on death row for eight years.<\/p>\n
In terse remarks to the hushed, packed courtroom, he said that Bibi’s conviction and sentence had been voided.<\/p>\n
In a 56-page verdict issued after the ruling, the three-judge bench appeared to side with Bibi’s advocates. They have maintained that the case against the 51-year-old illiterate farmhand was built around a grievance by her fellow Muslim workers, who appeared angry that she might drink from the same vessel as them. She was ordered by a local landlord to bring water to the women on a day while they were picking berries.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pakistan's Supreme Court has announced the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy. https:\/\/t.co\/0xhexikXmk<\/a><\/p>\n — NPR (@NPR) October 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n