Freedom for Asia Bibi
31 October 2018| 83 min
Depicts the case of religious persecution suffered by the Christian Pakistani Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen), falsely accused of blasphemy in 2010 by a Pakistani court and was sentenced to death by hanging. In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted her based on insufficient evidence, though she was not allowed to leave Pakistan until the verdict was reviewed. She was held under armed guard and was not able to leave the country until 7 May 2019; she arrived in Canada the next day.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
Anne-Isabelle Tollet
Asia Bibi
Ignacio Arsuaga
Miguel Angel Rutz
Esham Masih
Ashiq Masih
Rana Tanweer
Nadeem Anthony
Abdul Rasheed
Hanif Qershi
Mumtaz Qadri
Reza Sayah
Mohammed Idris
Morris Jalal
Joseph Nadeem
