“Authorities last month said they arrested two prisoners for allegedly conspiring to strangle her…” She will not be safe until she is out of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the government has said it will bar her from leaving, which will have the effect of making it easier for the Islamic hardliners ultimately to find and murder her. Her lawyer says: “She has been freed. I have been told that she is on a plane but nobody knows where she will land.” We can only hope that it will land far away from Pakistan.
“Asia Bibi freed from jail after eight years on death row for blasphemy,” Telegraph, November 7, 2018:
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, has been freed from jail, her lawyer said.
The country’s highest court last week overturned Ms Bibi’s conviction and ordered her release, but she had remained incarcerated as the government agreed to allow a review following Islamist protests over the bitterly divisive case.
Officials said she was being flown to an undisclosed location in Islamabad. “She has been freed. I have been told that she is on a plane but nobody knows where she will land,” lawyer Saif-ul-Malook said in a message sent to AFP.
A release order arrived Wednesday at the prison in the central city of Multan, where Bibi was detained, a prison official added.
Authorities last month said they arrested two prisoners for allegedly conspiring to strangle her, prompting additional police and troops to be deployed to the facility….
Thousands of Islamists poured onto the streets in protest after Supreme Court judges overturned Ms Bibi’s conviction last Wednesday, shutting down roads in major cities in Pakistan during three days of demonstrations against her acquittal.
They have threatened to escalate the protests if she is permitted to leave the country….
The government has indicated it will bar her from travelling abroad.