The family of Asia Bibi is seeking asylum and his lawyer is fleeing the country after Pakistan's conviction for blasphemy

In a video seen by the Press Association, he states: "I ask the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to help us and, as far as possible, to grant us freedom".

Speaking in Punjabi, he also sought asylum from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President Donald Trump.

Wilson Chowdhry, president of the British Pakistan Christian Association, who also launched a petition calling for asylum, said: "The fact that no offer has come forward is shocking.

"Hundreds of thousands rioted and called for his death."

The official route to asylum would imply that the family would have to apply after fleeing Pakistan. However, the Pakistani government has reached an agreement with Islamists to limit Bibi's displacement while his case is being investigated.

The chairman of Britain's foreign affairs selection committee, Tom Tugendhat, said he had asked the Interior Ministry for an "urgent assessment of the situation". guardian reported.

Imran Khan must decide whether or not he believes in the rule of law.

Tom Tugendhat, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Selection Committee of Great Britain.

"It is clear that Ms. Bibi and other religious minorities are in grave danger and Prime Minister Imran Khan must decide whether or not he believes in the law or the law," added the Conservative MP.

May had previously called for the abolition of the death penalty in the world when Bibi's case was questioned.

Bibi was arrested in 2009, accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam during an argument with farm laborers and sentenced to death for blasphemy. The lawyers have denied ever insulting Islam.

Activists have long criticized Pakistan's blasphemy laws, claiming that they were misused for abusing religious minorities.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted Bibi on Wednesday, enforcing the law but stating that there was not enough evidence to convict her.

France and Spain reportedly offered asylum to Bibi

It was requested that the images of her husband's message not be made public for fear of reprisals.

Meanwhile, Bibi's lawyer, Saiful Malook, has left Pakistan.

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The government reached an agreement with the Islamists that it agreed to impose a ban on traveling to Bibi while the case was being investigated. In return, the Islamists put an end to their demonstrations, which blocked the roads and immobilized certain regions of the country.

Malook told the Associated Press earlier this week that he should leave Pakistan because supporters of hard cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi had threatened to kill him as well as the judges who acquitted Bibi.

The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera announced that Malook had gone through Rome en route to Amsterdam. He said that he would speak at a conference in Amsterdam next week before settling permanently in London.

Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death in Pakistan, and the mere rumor provoked lynching. Islamists have made the blasphemy law a central rallying cry.

Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, was shot and killed by one of his guards in 2011 for defending Bibi and criticizing the misuse of the law. The assassin, Mumtaz Qadri, was hanged for the crime but was later hailed by the clerics as a martyr, millions of people going to a shrine he erected near Islamabad. Malook had been a prosecutor at the Qadri trial.

Bibi was arrested in 2009 on charges that she insulted the Prophet Muhammad during an altercation with other farm workers. His family and lawyers deny ever insulting Islam.

Rights groups called for the release of Bibi and criticized the blasphemy law, claiming that it had been used to settle accounts or mistreat religious minorities. The court upheld the blasphemy law, but said that there was not enough evidence to convict Bibi.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan apparently has not overturned its decisions, but judicial reviews generally take years. The Bibi trial should continue until the end of the examination.

Bibi's family was waiting for his release Thursday night. Her husband, Ashiq Masih, came back from England with her children in mid-October and was waiting for her release to leave Pakistan. Although the family did not reveal its destination, France and Spain offered asylum.

Press Association, AP