Asia Bibi, a 50-year-old mother of five, had appealed before the Lahore high court against the ruling, in which she was found guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, but the court rejected her appeal Thursday, her lawyer said. ‘We have the right to appeal in 30 days, and we will continue this legal battle by approaching the Supreme Court of Pakistan,’ Sardar Mushtaq said. Bibi’s case drew global criticism in 2011 when Pakistan’s minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti and eastern Punjab governor Salman Taseer were killed for supporting her and opposing blasphemy laws. Taseer was killed in Islamabad by one of his police guards after visiting Bibi in jail.