Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld today the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy back in 2010.

Ms Bibi is finally able to leave the country to join her daughters who had fled to Canada where they have been given asylum.

She had been sentenced to death in 2010 under Pakistan’s repressive blasphemy laws after a group of Muslim villagers accused her of insulting the prophet Muhammad in an altercation that began when two women refused to take water she offered them on the grounds that she was Christian.