Saturday, 29 June 2013
Pakistan: Rimsha Masih, family get asylum in Canada
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The 14-year-old resident of Meherabadi in Islamabad was detained when a neighbour claimed she had burned pages of the holy Quran. She spent three weeks on remand in an adult prison.
Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Pakistan Today
By Asher John | June 29, 2013
LAHORE - Teenage blasphemy accused Rimsha Masih and her family have been granted religious asylum in Canada, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday.
Rimsha's lawyer Tahir Naveed Chaudhry told Pakistan Today that the family comprising Rimsha, her three sisters and a brother, and parents had been moved to Canada two days before the dissolution of the National Assembly on March 16.
BACKGROUND
The 14-year-old resident of Meherabadi in Islamabad was detained when a neighbour claimed she had burned pages of the holy Quran. She spent three weeks on remand in an adult prison.
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