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Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (3 May 2012)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the case of Assia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan under that country's blasphemy law, either individually or collectively with his European partners seeking reassurances that she will not be executed and indeed made representations seeking her release; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government remains concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010 a Punjab court found Mrs. Bibi guilty of blasphemy, sentencing her to death by hanging. This is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. When the case came to the attention of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ambassador accredited to...

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