LAHORE, PAKISTAN (Worthy News)– The President of the Pakistan Christian Congress demanded the immediate release of Asia Bibi Saturday.
PCC President Nazir Bhatti expressed outrage that Bibi — a young
Christian mother sentenced to death by a lower court on false
accusations of blasphemy — has been waiting two years for the Lahore
High Court to hear her appeal.
Thousands of poor Pakistanis remain behind bars while awaiting
hearing dates for their appeals in Pakistan's back-logged high courts.
“(The) Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a country where justice is never ensured to religious minorities,” said Bhatti.
“Pakistani Christian have lost their confidence in (their) judicial
system … because it protected and released Muslims who attacked
Churches, killed worshipers, burnt alive women and children (and) gunned
down pastors," he said. "(It) never punished Muslims who filed false
blasphemy cases against Christians, never charged Muslims who
(forcefully) converted Christian women to Islam and gang raped Christian
girls …”
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