The former cell of Asia Bibi is now being used to hold another Christian woman in Pakistan.
Asia Bibi was freed earlier this month and joined her family in Canada. She spent some eight years in a Pakistani prison on blasphemy charges and faced the death penalty. She was exonerated in 2018.
Her former cell in Pakistan at the Multan Women Jail is now being used for Shagufta Kausar, a 45-year-old mother and wife.
Kausar and her husband were both condemned to death by a trial court in February 2014. A prayer leader at a local mosque accused Kausar’s husband, Shafqat Masih, of sending blasphemous text messages from his wife’s cell phone with her “connivance.”
The couple was arrested, and a mob surrounded the local police station, demanding the husband and wife be handed to them to be killed.
Since the arrest, the couple has been waiting five years for the Lahore High Court to hear their appeal.
“The couple is innocent,” their lawyer Saif-ul Malook said, “and there is no legal substantial evidence available that proves they actually texted those messages.”
Malook also represented Bibi.
“Every legal case requires a different strategy and I have decided a different strategy for this case as per the facts and relevant laws,” Malook told CT.
“Sending false persecution news [in the West] does not help the Pakistani Christians…
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