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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, listens to officials at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistani media say Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row, has left Pakistan for Canada to be reunited with her daughters. Wilson Chawdhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association told The Associated Press on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, he received a telephone text message from a British diplomat stating simply that “Aasia is out.” (AP Photo, File)

Pakistani woman acquitted of blasphemy headed to Canada

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, listens to officials at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. The Christian woman freed by Pakistan's Supreme Court which acquitted her on blasphemy charge was transferred to southern Karachi by Pakistan's security agencies, but has told a friend, who spoke to her on telephone, that she is being held in a room unable to leave and unable to find out when she can leave Pakistan. (AP Photo, File)

Woman acquitted of blasphemy still can’t leave Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Saiful Malook, center, lawyer of Pakistani Christian woman Aasia Bibi who is facing blasphemy charges, arrives at the Supreme Court, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Bibi acquitted of blasphemy faces a final legal hurdle in the court that could guarantee her freedom, allowing her to join her daughters. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

The Latest: Pakistani radicals slam blasphemy case acquittal

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In this Oct. 13, 2016, file photo, Saiful Malook, left, then lawyer of Aasia Bibi, briefs media with Bibi's husband Ashiq Masih outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman facing the final ruling on her fate is back in the country, vowing to fight the last legal hurdle with his client who faces death threats from Islamist radicals despite her acquittal in a blasphemy case. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Pakistan court to review acquittal in blasphemy trial

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

In this Oct. 13, 2016, file photo, Saiful Malook, left, then lawyer of Aasia Bibi, briefs media with Bibi's husband Ashiq Masih outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman facing the final ruling on her fate is back in the country, vowing to fight the last legal hurdle with his client who faces death threats from Islamist radicals despite her acquittal in a blasphemy case. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Top Pakistani court upholds acquittal, frees Christian woman

By Kathy Gannon and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, listens to officials at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. In Mid January 2019, the Pakistani Christian woman still lives the life of a prisoner, although she was freed from death row by the country’s top court more than two months ago. Meanwhile, a petition by Islamist radicals who rallied against her acquittal of blasphemy charges and who seek her execution awaits a Supreme Court decision. (AP Photo, File)

Freed by court, Pakistani Christian woman still a prisoner

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2016, file photo, a Pakistani Christian girl crosses a bridge in poor Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan.The uproar surrounding Aasia Bibi _ a Pakistani Christian woman who was acquitted of blasphemy charges and released from death row but remains in isolation for her protection _ has drawn attention to the plight of the country's Christians.The minority, among Pakistan's poorest, has faced an increasingly intolerant atmosphere in this Muslim-majority nation where radical religious and sectarian groups have become more prominent in recent years. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

Fake images of woman acquitted of blasphemy roil Pakistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Aasia Bibi is presented to journalists at a police station in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan. Bibi was acquitted in Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, after eight years on death row for blasphemy has been freed from jail and while an offer from the European Parliament has been made to protect her family, those familiar with her whereabouts say she is still in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Iram Asim, File)

Aasia Bibi, Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy, freed in Pakistan

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, photo, Aasia Bibi and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, are presented to journalists, at police station in Muzaffargarh in Pakistan. Pakistani police said Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, that they arrested a woman for allegedly plotting with Bibi, her newly married niece, to poison the 21-year-old woman's husband with tainted milk that would eventually kill him and 17 other relatives in a remote village. (AP Photo/Iram Asim)

Pakistani woman, charged with murder, previously warned against forced marriage

By Iram Asim - Associated Press