ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: A Pakistani Christian lady has been freed from jail a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and demise sentence for blasphemy towards Islam, and he or she is at a safe location in the country, officers stated on Thursday.
Officials pushed aside some media studies that the girl, Asia Bibi, have been flown in another country, which might enrage hardline Islamists who've been protesting towards her release and calling for her to be banned from leaving.
The release overnight of the mummy of five precipitated speedy anger from an Islamist celebration that has threatened to paralyse the country with boulevard protests if her acquittal is not reversed.
Bibi, 53, was once convicted of blasphemy in 2010 over allegations she made derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours objected to her drinking water from their glass as a result of she was once now not Muslim.
She all the time denied having dedicated blasphemy.
The case has outraged Christians worldwide, and Pope Francis met Bibi's circle of relatives this 12 months, announcing he prayed for her. Italy stated on Tuesday it could attempt to help Bibi, who's Catholic, to leave Pakistan.
Pakistan's international ministry denied studies that Bibi had left the country and identified that a review of the Supreme Court choice to free her was once pending.
"Asia Bibi is completely secure at a safe place in Pakistan," stated ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal.
"Her writ is in court, when that is decided, Asia Bibi can go anywhere she wants to, she is a free national ... if she wants to go abroad, no harm in it."
In Rome, the Catholic support agency Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) stated Bibi has been ready to look her husband at an undisclosed location.
Their daughters were “shut by means of” however had now not but observed their mother as of early afternoon.
The agency, which organized a gathering for Bibi’s husband and daughter with Pope Francis at the Vatican this 12 months, stated the circle of relatives was once looking ahead to visas however declined to divulge from which country for security causes.
Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory demise penalty in Pakistan, which is set 95 consistent with cent Muslim and has some of the cruelest blasphemy laws on the earth.
No executions for blasphemy were performed in Pakistan however enraged mobs every so often kill other folks accused of blasphemy.
Rights teams say the blasphemy legislation is exploited by means of hardliners as well as unusual Pakistanis to settle personal rankings.
Christians make up about 2 consistent with cent of the population.
'AGITATED'
Security officers advised Reuters early on Thursday that Bibi have been released from a prison in Multan, a city in the south of Punjab province.
She was once flown to Islamabad and was once in protective custody because of threats to her lifestyles, stated 3 officers, talking on condition of anonymity.
Bibi's legal professional, who has fled Pakistan and this week sought asylum in the Netherlands, confirmed she was once now not in jail.
"All I can tell you is that she has been released," legal professional Saif-ul-Mulook advised Reuters by means of telephone from the Netherlands, the place the federal government stated on Thursday it had offered him transient asylum.
A spokesman for the hard-line Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) celebration, which took to the streets after the Supreme Court ruling, stated her release violated a take care of the federal government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to finish the protests.
"The TLP activists are agitated as the government has breached the agreement with our party. The rulers have showed their dishonesty," celebration spokesman Ejaz Ashrafi advised Reuters.
Under the deal, the federal government stated it could now not block a petition to the Supreme Court to check Bibi's acquittal in light of sharia, Islamic religious legislation, the TLP stated.
It also stated the federal government promised to paintings to verify Bibi could now not go away the country.
If the federal government permits Bibi to leave, it could most probably face more paralysing protests from the TLP and different Islamist events.
Officials pushed aside some media studies that the girl, Asia Bibi, have been flown in another country, which might enrage hardline Islamists who've been protesting towards her release and calling for her to be banned from leaving.
The release overnight of the mummy of five precipitated speedy anger from an Islamist celebration that has threatened to paralyse the country with boulevard protests if her acquittal is not reversed.
Bibi, 53, was once convicted of blasphemy in 2010 over allegations she made derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours objected to her drinking water from their glass as a result of she was once now not Muslim.
She all the time denied having dedicated blasphemy.
The case has outraged Christians worldwide, and Pope Francis met Bibi's circle of relatives this 12 months, announcing he prayed for her. Italy stated on Tuesday it could attempt to help Bibi, who's Catholic, to leave Pakistan.
Pakistan's international ministry denied studies that Bibi had left the country and identified that a review of the Supreme Court choice to free her was once pending.
"Asia Bibi is completely secure at a safe place in Pakistan," stated ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal.
"Her writ is in court, when that is decided, Asia Bibi can go anywhere she wants to, she is a free national ... if she wants to go abroad, no harm in it."
In Rome, the Catholic support agency Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) stated Bibi has been ready to look her husband at an undisclosed location.
Their daughters were “shut by means of” however had now not but observed their mother as of early afternoon.
The agency, which organized a gathering for Bibi’s husband and daughter with Pope Francis at the Vatican this 12 months, stated the circle of relatives was once looking ahead to visas however declined to divulge from which country for security causes.
Insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad carries a mandatory demise penalty in Pakistan, which is set 95 consistent with cent Muslim and has some of the cruelest blasphemy laws on the earth.
No executions for blasphemy were performed in Pakistan however enraged mobs every so often kill other folks accused of blasphemy.
Rights teams say the blasphemy legislation is exploited by means of hardliners as well as unusual Pakistanis to settle personal rankings.
Christians make up about 2 consistent with cent of the population.
'AGITATED'
Security officers advised Reuters early on Thursday that Bibi have been released from a prison in Multan, a city in the south of Punjab province.
She was once flown to Islamabad and was once in protective custody because of threats to her lifestyles, stated 3 officers, talking on condition of anonymity.
Bibi's legal professional, who has fled Pakistan and this week sought asylum in the Netherlands, confirmed she was once now not in jail.
"All I can tell you is that she has been released," legal professional Saif-ul-Mulook advised Reuters by means of telephone from the Netherlands, the place the federal government stated on Thursday it had offered him transient asylum.
A spokesman for the hard-line Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) celebration, which took to the streets after the Supreme Court ruling, stated her release violated a take care of the federal government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to finish the protests.
"The TLP activists are agitated as the government has breached the agreement with our party. The rulers have showed their dishonesty," celebration spokesman Ejaz Ashrafi advised Reuters.
Under the deal, the federal government stated it could now not block a petition to the Supreme Court to check Bibi's acquittal in light of sharia, Islamic religious legislation, the TLP stated.
It also stated the federal government promised to paintings to verify Bibi could now not go away the country.
If the federal government permits Bibi to leave, it could most probably face more paralysing protests from the TLP and different Islamist events.
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