Pakistan’s Aasia Bibi Finally Gets Justice

Expand The daughters of Aasia Bibi pose with an image of their mother outside their residence in Sheikhupura in Punjab Province, Pakistan on November 13, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Pakistan’s Supreme Court has finally put an end to the horrific ordeal of 47-year-old Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman from a village in Punjab province who has spent the past eight years of her life on death row. Bibi was convicted under Pakistan’s blasphemy law after a June 2009 altercation with fellow farm workers who refused to drink water she had touched, contending it was “unclean” because she was Christian. After…

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