{"id":20507,"date":"2018-10-31T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20507"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:23:31","slug":"pakistani-christian-asia-bibi-has-death-penalty-conviction-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20507","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi has death penalty conviction overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Islamabad, Pakistan  (CNN)<\/cite>Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/22\/asia\/pakistan-blasphemy-case\/index.html\">convicted of blasphemy in 2010<\/a> and sentenced to hang after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammed during an argument the year before with Muslim colleagues. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The workers had refused to drink from a bucket of water Asia Bibi had touched because she was not Muslim. At the time, Asia Bibi said the case was a matter of women who didn&#8217;t like her &#8220;taking revenge.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court has acquitted a Christian woman who has been on death row for almost eight years on blasphemy charges.Asia Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammed during an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}