Pakistan’s top court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in a case that has polarised the nation.
Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a row with her neighbours.
She will be freed after her release was ordered by authorities in a court order on Wednesday.
Ms Bibi was being held at an undisclosed jail for security reasons.
The landmark ruling is expected to anger Islamists who had threatened to launch nationwide protests if the court freed her.
Ms Bibi was arrested in 2009 after a quarrel with Muslim women.
Islamists have demanded her execution. A governor and a minister of minorities were assassinated in 2011 for supporting her.
Insulting Islam is punishable by death in Pakistan.
