PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF ASIA BIBI STAYED

Pakistan’s Supreme Court said it would hear an appeal from Aasia Noreen, popularly known as Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.
Bibi’s lawyer Saif-ul-Malook said the court had stayed her death sentence until the appeal, Reuters reported.
“The execution of Asia Bibi has been suspended and will remain suspended until the decision of this appeal,” Malook said, adding that a date for her execution had not previously been set.
Bibi was sentenced to death in 2010 under Pakistan’s blasphemy law, over an argument with a group of women who refused to drink the water she offered them because her status as a Christian made it “unclean.”
Bibi, a mother of four and the first woman to be so sentenced under the blasphemy law, has said in the past that she was implicated because of a personal vendetta that the group of women had against her.