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Anne-Isabelle Tollet

Nascimento : 1974-05-13,

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Anne-Isabelle Tollet is a French jounalist and writer. She is a major reporter specializing since 2007 in sensitive areas such as Afghanistan and Pakistan where she stayed for three years. As special envoy to Kosovo, for the French news channel ITélé , she was selected for an International Emmy Awards on September 22, 2011. She has published the book "Blasphemy" (2011) depicting the case of Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen).

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Freedom for Asia Bibi

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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.