Aasia Bibi, a
Christian woman with five sons, is a poor peasant living at
Ittanwalai, in the Punjab region.
In June 2009, while
working as usual in a large land property, she had a quarrel with
some of her Muslim colleagues, during which she was accused by them
of insulting Islam.
After being arrested
by the police, she was tried and charged with blasphemy, which is an
“offence” punished by the criminal code, and because of that she
received a death sentence on November 7th 2010.
In Pakistan anybody
was ever executed for that kind of “crime”. Her husband brought in
an appeal to the higher court, so the sentence is suspended, while
waiting for the following steps of judgement.
The appeal to save
Aasia
The Community of Sant’Egidio urges everybody to share its own appeal aiming to spare Aasia’s life from the execution, sending the following statement to the President and the Minister of Justice of Pakistan.
Urgent appeal brought out by the Community of Sant’Egidio
to save the life of Aasia Bibi,
sentenced to death
Dear President
Your Excellency
I am writing to express my
deep concern over a ruling that sentenced to death Mrs. Aasia Bibi for
trifling reasons, by a punishment completely disproportionate as regards the
alleged crime carried out by her, and on the grounds of confused proofs,
purely rising from religious grudge.
I urge you to intervene on her
behalf to prevent this cruel and inhuman punishment from being meted out
against her.
I implore you to ensure that
this cruel and inhuman sentence is not carried out
Respectfully yours
(signature and date)
APPEALS
TO:
President of Republic of
Pakistan: Asif Ali Zardari [email protected]
Send appeal
Minister for Law and
Justice: Zaheeruddin Babar Awen [email protected]
