Asia Bibi: no release without international pressure, lawyer says
Posted on December 7, 2014
Filed under World news
“The human-rights lawyer who is risking his life by defending Asia Bibi has denounced the blasphemy law under which she has been sentenced to death as a ‘tool of oppression’.
Her lawyer, Naeem Shakir, told an audience at Westminster Abbey on Saturday that the international community must put pressure on the Pakistani authorities to reform the law…”
– Story from Church Times.
Related: Barnabas Fund campaign “Save Aasia Bibi: Don’t let her die”.
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