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A top Republican Senator has urged the United States President Donald Trump to grant asylum and refugee status to Pakistani national Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who recently freed from prison after her blasphemy sentence was reversed.
The 47-year-old Bibi, a mother of four, was released from Multan jail earlier this month after the Supreme Court in its landmark decision acquitted her of blasphemy charges.
Senator Rand Paul said that he was worried that Bibi won't survive and he in person took up the matter with President Trump earlier this week.
"I've been fighting for them to free Asia Bibi. I've talked to the President about granting her asylum and refugee status here," Paul told CNN in an interview.
A superior member from an American think-tank has also recommended that Bibi should seek asylum.
"President Trump should invite Ms. Bibi to come to America and request asylum. To do so would be just, moral and wise," Clifford D May, president of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, said in an op-ed in The Washington Times this week.
By Sowmya
