The Hague: A Pakistani lawyer who saved Asia Bibi, convicted of blasphemy from death row, said Monday that the UN and EU made him leave the country "against my wishes" because his life was at risk.Saif-ul-Malook, who has fled to the Netherlands, said he contacted a United Nations official in Islamabad after violence erupted following the Supreme Court´s acquittal of Asia Bibi on Wednesday."And then they (the UN) and the European nation ambassadors in Islamabad, they kept me for three days and then put me on a plane against my wishes," the lawyer told a press conference in The Hague.
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