Former attorney general Dominic Grieve had urged the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary to extend to Asia and her family permission to seek refuge in the UK, before news broke of an apparent new deal.
Wilson Chowdhry from the British Christian Pakistani Association told Premier: “They [Ms Bibi’s family] have signed paperwork for Spain, so their wish has been granted.
“As soon as Asia Bibi is free from the prison which has kept her for so long, she will be able to fly away from Pakistan and to a place of great safety.”
Earlier, Mr Grieve said the treatment of Ms Bibi – who spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy – had been “deplorable” and he urged ministers to intervene.
Referring to Asia and her family, he told Premier: “It seems to me quite clear that their future in Pakistan is an impossible one, in view of the threats they’re under.
“They’re, therefore, eminently eligible for asylum and I would hope that the United Kingdom government would be in a position to make that offer.”
Thousands of people took to the streets of Pakistan’s major cities in protest last week after the country’s Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi. Demonstrators demanded she be publicly executed.
Asia Bibi had been accused of insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad during a row with a group of Muslim women in 2009. She…
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