<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Rimsha Masih, who was taken into custody under the blasphemy law, told CNN that she was happy to be back with her family but still feared for her life.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;I&#39;m scared,&quot; she told CNN over phone. &quot;I&#39;m afraid of anyone who might kill us.&quot;</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   She spoke from her hideout where she was taken in a helicopter after her release on bail.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   When asked how she was doing, she said she was good.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;No, no,&quot; she replied to a query on whether she ever burned pages of the Quran.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Were you falsely accused? &quot;Yes,&quot; she responded.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Rimsha&#39;s lawyers have denied that she desecrated the Quran. They said instead said that the neighbour wanted to settle a personal score with Rimsha because the two didn&#39;t get along.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The lawyers told CNN this may have been because he liked her but she didn&#39;t like him back.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Rimsha&#39;s father Mizrak Mashi said no one in his family would dare dishonour the Quran.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;We respect the Quran just like we respect the Bible,&quot; he was quoted as saying.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;We couldn&#39;t imagine committing blasphemy let alone doing it. Our children would never do this either.&quot;</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Local imam Khalid Jadoon has been taken into judicial custody as he was &quot;accused of inserting pages of the Quran into the bag containing other religious material that the girl is alleged to have burned&quot;.u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The muezzin of the same mosque who gave his testimony in an Islamabad court claims that the &quot;imam wanted to beef up the &#39;evidence&#39; to ensure that the girl&#39;s family would have to leave the neighbourhood for good&quot;, reported Pakistan&#39;s leading daily Dawn.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The daily described Khalid Jadoon&#39;s alleged act as &quot;awful&quot;.</div>

 "I'm scared," said Rimsa Masih, a teenaged Christian girl in Pakistan who faced a life sentence for allegedly buring pages of the Quran but has now been released on bail. She told a US broadcaster about her fears that she may be killed

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