Aasia Bibi can't leave Pakistan despite acquittal

The Associated Press news agency spoke to Bibi by telephone with Ullah's assistance following her October acquittal, which was upheld last month.Bibi's ordeal began in 2009.She was arrested after being accused of blasphemy following a quarrel with two female Muslim farm workers who refused to drink from a water container used by a Christian.The Supreme Court judges said there were widespread inconsistencies in the testimony against Bibi, who has steadfastly maintained her innocence.The acquittal should have given Bibi her freedom, but Ullah said diplomats were told that her departure from Pakistan, where she feels her life would be in danger, would come not in the short term, but "in the medium term".He said Bibi told him she is locked in one room of a house."The door opens at food time only," said Ullah, and she is allowed to make phone calls in the morning and again at night.