Faith has difficult way of testing our faith in our beliefs with the trials and tests that present themselves on our table.
Forget Lidya Achieng’s 10 year Lang’ata women imprisonment under false testimony story that has turned out to be a fraud according to the judiciary, a certain woman was given the death penalty in this era for standing for her faith stealing so many years of joy from her until activists pushed a successful campaign for her freedom.
Justice has finally been sealed as on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010, clearing the way for her to leave the country as radical Islamists seethe.
Asia Bibi, a mother and illiterate farmhand of Christian faith, spent eight years on death row, until the country’s top court acquitted her last October, sparking massive protests across Pakistan.
The case stems back to a sweltering day in 2009, when Bibi was ordered to fetch water, upsetting Muslim farmworkers who feared she might sip from the same vessel. Bibi was subsequently accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad an allegation that she denied.
Lawyer, Ghulam Ikram, had argued that the high court’s October verdict didn’t give enough weight to witness testimonies.
The chief justice said those witnesses could go to jail for their false testimonies. Then the three-member bench ruled that Ikram failed to show a mistake in the high court’s original judgment.