France offers Asia Bibi asylum after meeting Macron

A Pakistani Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy met with French President Emmanuel Macron after his country offered her asylum. Asia Bibi was accompanied by a translator when she visited Macron at Elysees Palace in Paris on Friday.

The 49-year-old had been offered asylum by France after she was acquitted of her conviction in Pakistan last year.

Before the mother-of-four was offered the asylum, Bibi had been living with her family in Canada.

Speaking from palace grounds, Bibi said she would need to "think" about her children and her health before deciding on how to respond to the offer.

Bibi was convicted in 2010 of making derogatory remarks about Islam when she was a farm worker.

Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned her conviction in 2018.