The dreadful blasphemy laws in Pakistan’s Penal Code stipulates life imprisonment for blasphemy against the Qur'an and death penalty for blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed.
Source/Credit: Vatican Radio
By Vatican Radio | May 1, 2017
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has turned down the request for an early hearing of the case of a Catholic mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, that her supporters and rights activists hold hard-line Islamic lobbyists responsible for. Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on April 26, declined a request for the hearing of the case of Asia Bibi in the first week of June made by her Muslim lawyer Saiful Malook. “Today I have been informed that the plea was declined by the CJP,” Malook is reported to have told The Express Tribune.
Bibi, a 51-year old fruit picker from Sheikhupura, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death in 2010 after an argument with a Muslim woman over a glass of water. Her supporters and rights activists maintain her innocence and insist she was falsely accused due to a personal dispute with the accuser. Successive appeals have been rejected, and if the Supreme Court bench upholds Bibi’s conviction, her only recourse will be a direct appeal to the president for clemency.
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