Monday, November 15, 2010

Asia Bibi - Sentenced to death in Pakistan



Diego Ibarra/4SEE

Asia Bibi, a simple christian woman who worked her life on the fields of a muslim landlord was accused and sentenced to death in November 8th for allegedly have commited blasphemy against The Profet Mohammed.

Her life has changed dramatically when a complaint to a  muslim cleric of a local mosque threw her into a spiral of torture and  violence. She faced great hostility due to her religious beliefs,  intolerable and  diferent from the vast majority of the Pakistani people.

The case of  Asia Bibi, is the first  case in Pakistan and it's the first time Pakistan Laws apply a death sentence to a Christian woman regarding a case of  blasphemy.

Asia's husband is portrayed in this set.

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