Aasia Bibi’s lawyer wants German passports for her and family

The lawyer for Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of capital blasphemy charges, appealed on Tuesday to Germany to give her whole family citizenship to start a new life in Europe.

In a press conference in Frankfurt, Mulook said that Aasia Bibi is now free but she needs a passport to leave the country.


Saiful Mulook tolda news conference in Frankfurt that Bibi was now free but she and her family needed a passport to leave the country.


“The whole world is asking why she’s not coming,” Mulook told Reuters. “The answer is first that to leave a country you need a visa or you require a passport of another country.”

“If the German chancellor directs her ambassador to give a passport to her, her husband and her two daughters conferring German nationality, nobody can stop her for one second because she is no longer Pakistani,” he added.

Despite pressure from religious groups, the Pakistani government has said it would protect Aasia Bibi and her family.

“As a citizen of Pakistan, Aasia Bibi and her family are entitled to all rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of Pakistan,” Prime Minister Imran Khan told European Parliament President Antonio Tajani last week.