Alleged blasphemy: Pakistani christian woman arrives Canada

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row last year has arrived in Canada.

Bibi, a mother of five from Punjab province, was taken out of the country after repeated death threats from religious extremists in Pakistan, following the quashing of her conviction for blasphemy.

She has been separated from her family and living in safe houses since the 2018 overturning of the sentence. Her children are already in Canada.

Bibi was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death by hanging, after she was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during an argument a year earlier with Muslim colleagues.