Blasphemy - The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water (Paperback, Digital original)

Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 Degrees and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, drinks some more and then offers it to another woman. Suddenly one of her fellow workers cries out that the water belongs to the Muslim women and that with her actions, Asia - who is Christian - has contaminated it. An argument ignites and in an instant, with one word, Asia's fate is sealed. 'Blasphemy!' someone shouts. In Pakistan this is a charge punishable by death. First attacked by a mob, Asia was soon after thrown into prison and then sentenced to be hanged. Since then she has been kept in a windowless cell. Her family have had to flee their village, under threat from vengeful extremists. In the wave of accusation that followed, only two public figures came to Asia's defence: the Muslim governor of the Punjab and Pakistan's Christian Minister for Minorities. Both have since been brutally murdered. Here, in equal measures shocking and inspiring, Asia Bibi, who has become a symbol for everyone concerned with ending the violence committed in the name of religion, bravely speaks to us from her prison cell.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Asia Bibi
Dimensions:	215 x 134 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	137
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-888-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84408-888-X
Barcode:	9781844088881

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