Washington: A US lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to grant asylum to Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in a blasphemy case, claiming she was “persecuted” in the Muslim-majority country for being a Christian. A three-member Supreme Court Bench threw out a petition seeking to review the apex court’s decision to acquit 47-year-old Bibi was arrested in 2009 for allegedly using derogatory words during a quarrel with Muslim women while working on a farm in Punjab province. “Asia Bibi has been persecuted, jailed and threatened for doing nothing more than being a Christian in Pakistan,” Congressman Ken Calvert said. PTI
$300 m to family of journalist killed in Syria
Washington: A Washington judge has hit the Syrian government with a $302 million judgment over the 2012 death of journalist Marie Colvin, a longtime foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. In a verdict, US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded the Syrian military had deliberately targeted the makeshift media center in the city of Homs where Colvin and other journalists were working. Sustained artillery barrages against the apartment building housing the media center killed Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik on February 22, 2012. The 2018 film “A Private War” was based on her life. Lawyers for Colvin’s hope to recover the $302 million verdict by targeting frozen Syrian government assets overseas. AP
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