Great news!
Via Free Beacon:
Asia Bibi, the persecuted Christian woman who feared for her life in Pakistan and became a global symbol for religious freedom, has made it to safety in Canada, her lawyer told the German-language Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Friday.
The news, which the Washington Free Beacon could not independently confirm, would bring to an end a saga that included Bibi’s lawyer fleeing Pakistan for fear of his life, a blasphemy conviction, a court intervention, and global government involvement.
A Pakistani court found that Bibi, a Christian and mother, had slandered the Prophet Muhammad in a 2009 exchange with Muslim coworkers. As a result, the court sentenced her to death in 2010. Last October, however, Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted Bibi, who at that point had been on death row for almost eight years.