Asia Bibi is ‘well’, faces ‘no threat in jail’: husband

Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy last year is “well” and faces “no threat in jail”, her husband told AFP on Wednesday, rejecting recent claims of her poor health.
“She is perfectly alright, all the media stories about her are incorrect”, Ashiq Masih, husband of Asia, told AFP by phone.
The Masihi Foundation, a purported Christian rights group, said in December it had visited the 46-year-old and was quoted by Catholic news agency Fides describing Bibi’s “very frail” physical and mental state.
But her husband said the rights group “never visited her”, and insisted “she has no threat in jail”.
Sheikhupura Jail Superintendent Sheikh Khalid Pervaiz also told AFP that Asia had received no visitors apart from her husband.
“She is well in her lock up. She is getting special treatment in C-Class cell. No other person other than her husband met her in the jail for the last one year or so,” he said.