Freedom for Asia Bibi(2018)

🎬83 min
📅2018-10-31
🎭Documentary

Overview

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.

Production

CitizenGo, HazteOir

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Cast

Anne-Isabelle Tollet
as Journalist/Writer
Asia Bibi
as
Ignacio Arsuaga
as
Miguel Angel Rutz
as Father
Esham Masih
as Asia Bibi's daughter
Ashiq Masih
as Asia Bibi's husband
Rana Tanweer
as Journalist Lahore
Nadeem Anthony
as Defense Lawyer
Abdul Rasheed
as Imam
Hanif Qershi
as Mufti

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