Amnesty urges release of Pakistani Christian woman

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An international human rights advocate has joined calls for the release of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws.

Amnesty International on Friday also called on Pakistan to revise the law under which mother of five Asia Bibi was convicted this month.

The case stems from a dispute between Bibi and a group of Muslim women over the use of a water bowl. The other women accused her of making derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad. She has been in prison for one-and-a-half years and her case has been appealed.

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged Pakistan to release Bibi.

The case has drawn attention to blasphemy laws, which critics say are used to persecute Christian and other minorities.

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Found dead next to California man shot in the head of woman

SAN DIEGO (AP)--authorities say a woman found dead in an apartment in the sides of a man suspected of killing a police officer was killed by injury to the head and his fatal shooting of San Diego ruled a homicide.

San Diego County medical examiner said in a statement Saturday 27 - year - old Lucky Xayasene died of a "pervasive gunshot to the head", but did not say who fired the shot.

Police say Xayasene and 30 years old Holim Lee were found dead Thursday in a bedroom littered with guns, hours after the fire was exchanged with the agents and U.S. Marshals serving an arrest warrant in apartment .Agent Christopher Wilson was shot and killed.

Declaration of the coroner does not give a cause of death among Lee, whose family says he served in the coast guard, but later the turned to drugs and crime.

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