Pakistan Sentences Christian to Death for Blasphemy

Pakistan has sentenced a Christian woman to death for blasphemy against Islam, the Telegraph reports. Asia Bibi, a farmworker and mother of five, made derogatory remarks about Mohammed while arguing about religion with Muslim colleagues, say prosecutors. "Essentially the blasphemy law is used as a tool of persecution and to settle other scores that are nothing to do with religion," said a member of Human Rights Watch. "It's an obscene law." (More Pakistan stories.)