By Theodore Shoebat
Asia Bibi has been in prison for over six years now. She is a Christian Catholic woman, and is being placed in a hell hole of a prison cell, where the cries of insane women and koranic recitation are heard constantly throughout the day, and sanitation is non-existent. The guards are continuously telling her that the only hope she has of escape from death is to praise Allah. They also forced her to wear the Islamic face covering:
According to the report:
Witnesses have said that Asia Bibi, the Christian mother of five who was sentenced to death in Pakistan, is living in deplorable prison conditions, which they describe as a “hell hole.” Bibi is reportedly bombarded with constant pressure to embrace Islam, but refuses to deny her Christian faith.
Mission Network News reported on Tuesday that sources close to the ALIVE network of churches have managed to investigate conditions at the women’s block in Multan Jail, where Bibi is being held.
According to MNN, those individuals found that the building “does not have any system of cross ventilation.”
“There are sets of two beds placed on one another in a vertical manner to double the capacity. There are a total of 6 unhygienic toilets which are, in the words of a former prisoner, ‘not sufficient for the number of inmates,'” the report added.
To make matters worse, the prison block has a capacity of 30-40 prisoners, and yet close to 150 inmates are being detained there.
“Multan’s summers are extremely hot,” said a former prisoner. “Combine this with overcrowding, poor sanitation, heating, lighting, and ventilation in the jail, and you realize the hell hole where Asia’s single cell is located.”
Witnesses also said that Bibi is surrounded by constant Islamic prayer, with officials necessitating prisoners to sit before the Quran for hours and read the Islamic holy text. They have been told that if they praise Allah and ask for forgiveness, their sentence will be reduced.
“It is not just the sound of the five times of prayer that Asia is surrounded by. Every waking hour she hears the wailing of broken and often mentally-disturbed women mixed with the sound of the Quran being read out loud. Prison is no quiet place,” the report continued.
While it’s not known whether Bibi is allowed to have a Bible, it’s rarely allowed in Pakistani prisons.
Bibi was sent to prison six years ago and placed on death row after being charged with breaking the country’s strict blasphemy laws in an incident in which she got into an argument with a group of Muslim women over a water supply, and asked them, “My Christ died for me, what did Muhammed do for you?”
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