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Top Pakistani court upholds acquittal, frees Christian woman
January 29, 2019 18:20 pm
ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, clearing the last legal hurdle and freeing Aasia Bibi to leave the country in a move that dealt a blow to radical Islamists who had demanded her execution.
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