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A Christian woman acquitted by Pakistan's supreme court of Islamabad from the United States of America.
Amid tight security, Asia Bibi left a detention facility in Punjab province for the flight to the capital, the officials said. Troops guarded the roads leading to the airport, which they said. The representatives spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday as they were not authorized to speak on media on the record.
Authorities last month said they arrested two prisoners for allegedly conspiring to strangle her and then added police and troops to the facility in Punjab. Officials said Bibi will be safer at the new facility in Islamabad.
Bibi's transfer comes a week after the high court in a landmark ruling acquitted Bibi and ordered her released, a move that triggered nationwide protests. Bibi's release was put on hold Friday afternoons with islamists who want her publicly hanged.
Authorities now say Bibi can not leave the country because of a petition for a review of the court ruling. Pakistani courts usually take years to decide such cases.
Bibi was arrested in 2009 on charges of insulting Islam's prophet and she was sentenced to death in 2010. Her family has always maintained her innocence and says she never insulted the prophet.
Blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death in Pakistan.
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Tanveer reported from Multan, Pakistan.
