31 Facts About Asia Bibi

1. Asia Bibi was convicted on trumped up charges and sentenced to execution by hanging on November 8, 2010.

2. Asia Bibi has remained in prison, mostly in solitary confinement, while her husband and children fled to the UK.

3. Asia Bibi was acquitted by the Supreme Court last month, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, leader of the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, called for the immediate assassination of the judges who delivered the verdict.

4. Asia Bibi is a Christian mum-of-five sentenced to death by hanging and currently on death row in a Pakistani prison.

5. Asia Bibi is a Roman Catholic who has spent years in detention after being sentenced to death for insulting Pakistan's Islamic faith—a ridiculous charge, considering the facts of her case.

6. Asia Bibi has reportedly been taken to an undisclosed location as she and her family look for a way to flee Pakistan.

7. Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death by hanging.

8. Asia Bibi must prepare her food by herself to avoid being poisoned.

9. Asia Bibi said that the women then began hurling curses at her, insulting Jesus and pressing her to convert.

10. In 2009, Asia Bibi was thrown into prison for allegedly insulting the prophet of Islam during an argument with local women from her rural village outside Lahore, Pakistan.

11. In 2009, Asia Bibi was thrown into prison for allegedly insulting the prophet of Islam.

12. Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row before a Pakistani court overturned her sentence and she was freed.

13. Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row before a Pakistani court overturned.

14. Asia Bibi is currently being held under armed guard at an undisclosed location in Islamabad after being released from prison in Punjab Province.

15. Asia Bibi is still hiding in a safe place in Pakistan.

16. Asia Bibi was arrested after an altercation with some women while they were employed berry-picking.

17. Asia Bibi should have the same right to live in the UK without having to seek asylum.

18. Asia Bibi spent more than eight years in a Pakistani prison, in solitary confinement, much of that time on death row.

19. Asia Bibi spent almost eight years incarcerated on death row before her acquittal.

20. Asia Bibi was set free from New Jail for Women in Multan amidst tight security and was shifted to a secure place.

21. Asia Bibi was acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan prompting massive demonstrations across the country.

22. Asia Bibi has been blocked from leaving Pakistan after the overturning of her conviction prompted a wave of protests among Islamist hard-liners.

23. Asia Bibi reportedly is out of prison but remains in Pakistan deputy director and senior associate for South Asia with the Asia Program at the Wilson Center.

24. Asia Bibi has been imprisoned in a Pakistani jail since 2010.

25. Asia Bibi is believed to be in an undisclosed location outside of Islamabad, after the Pakistani government denied rumors that she had left the country.

26. Asia Bibi denied the allegations, adding that her co-workers had refused to drink from the vessel of juice because she—a non-Muslim and a Christian—had touched it.

27. Asia Bibi is the litmus test of whether the United States and the rest of the West are really willing to defend persecuted religious minorities around the world.

28. In 2010, Asia Bibi was convicted and sentenced under section 295-C of the 1986 blasphemy law.

29. On 7 November 2018, Asia Bibi was released from the New Jail for Women in Multan.

30. Asia Bibi never expected to become a global poster-woman for the cause of religious tolerance.

31. Asia Bibi will no longer be facing a court-ordered execution.