"Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian mother of five who has spent seven years on death row due to blasphemy charges, has been nominated for a prestigious European Union religious freedom prize.
The mother's ongoing legal saga began back in 2009, after Muslim co-workers accused her of
blasphemy for praising Jesus Christ and allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Bibi denied the charge but was found guilty and sentenced to death in November 2010. Several appeals have since followed and the latest hearing, which Bibi's attorney attempted to have scheduled for June, was delayed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar.
Unless Bibi's death sentence is overturned, she is set to become the first woman in Pakistan to be executed under the blasphemy laws.
Previous recipients of the Sakharov Prize include Nadia Murad and Lamya Aji Bashar Taha, two young Yazidi women who were kidnapped by Islamic State extremists and forced to live as sex slaves." CP
The mother's ongoing legal saga began back in 2009, after Muslim co-workers accused her of
Bibi denied the charge but was found guilty and sentenced to death in November 2010. Several appeals have since followed and the latest hearing, which Bibi's attorney attempted to have scheduled for June, was delayed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar.
Unless Bibi's death sentence is overturned, she is set to become the first woman in Pakistan to be executed under the blasphemy laws.
Previous recipients of the Sakharov Prize include Nadia Murad and Lamya Aji Bashar Taha, two young Yazidi women who were kidnapped by Islamic State extremists and forced to live as sex slaves." CP
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:35
