Asia Bibi freed from jail

Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, has been freed from jail, her lawyer said Thursday.

The Gulf News reports that country’s highest court last week overturned Bibi’s conviction and ordered her release, but she had remained incarcerated as the government agreed to allow a review following Islamist protests over the bitterly divisive case.

“She has been freed. I have been told that she is on a plane but nobody knows where she will land,” lawyer Saif-Ul-Malook said in a message sent to AFP.