{"id":13709,"date":"2019-01-29T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T10:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=13709"},"modified":"2019-01-29T05:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T10:16:28","slug":"asia-bibi-blasphemy-acquittal-upheld-by-pakistan-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/01\/29\/asia-bibi-blasphemy-acquittal-upheld-by-pakistan-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Bibi blasphemy acquittal upheld by Pakistan court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Pakistan&#8217;s top court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of a Christian woman on blasphemy charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court upheld its decision to overturn Asia Bibi&#8217;s conviction and death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>She was originally convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a row with her neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Asia Bibi has always maintained her innocence in a case that has polarised Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The original ruling set off violent protests by religious hardliners who support strong blasphemy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row before the Supreme Court quashed her sentence last October.<\/p>\n<p>Hardliners had petitioned to overturn this ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on merit, this petition is dismissed,&#8221; Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosar said in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-47040847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Pakistan&#8217;s top court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of a Christian woman on blasphemy charges. The Supreme Court upheld its decision to overturn Asia Bibi&#8217;s conviction and death sentence. She was originally convicted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/01\/29\/asia-bibi-blasphemy-acquittal-upheld-by-pakistan-court\/\" title=\"Asia Bibi blasphemy acquittal upheld by Pakistan court\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,6],"tags":[5674,5675,1071,5664],"class_list":["post-13709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-world","tag-asia-bibi","tag-blasphemy","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-supreme-court","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13714,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions\/13714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}