View from the courtroom: No law yet to specifically deal with torture cases
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Mother of paraplegic death row inmate Abdul Basit pleads for pardon
(THE GUARDIAN) The mother of a paraplegic inmate on death row in Pakistan has urged the country’s president to pardon her son. Nusrat Perveen said that president Mamnoon Hussain...
Paralysed death-row prisoner ‘suffering life worse than hell after stay of execution expires’
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Abused and Silenced: A Look at Data from Faisalabad
(TORTUREJPP) “Go commit suicide. Nobody is going to listen to you” These words have echoed through police stations in this country thousands of times. Beaten, abused and tortured, the...
President turned down 513 mercy petitions over last five years: Interior Ministry
PAKISTAN TODAY – Staff Report The Pakistani president rejected as many as 513 mercy petitions of condemned prisoners over the last five years, an Interior Ministry document revealed on...
Who are we hanging? ‘State policies fuelled terrorism’
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: Panelists at a discussion organized on Wednesday at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) highlighted major limitations of counter-terrorism measures, legal problems in anti-terrorism legislation,...
Intra court appeal shouldn’t be abolished
DAILY TIMES – Sarmad Ali A couple of months ago, a Senate committee adopted a draft report on Provision of Inexpensive and Speedy Justice. The report recommended some necessary...
Pakistan hangs three convicts amid criticism over executions
DAILYMAIL – AFP Pakistan hanged three convicted murderers on Wednesday, the same day Amnesty International criticised it for becoming the world’s third most prolific executioner after China and Iran....
Amnesty: Alarming surge in executions across the world
MADE FOR MINDS – Anne Sophie Brahdlin A new report by Amnesty International documents that governments executed more people last year than at any point in the past 25...
Death penalty
(DAWN – Editorial) It is depressing to note that the number of executions carried out since Peshawar’s Army Public School tragedy in December 2014 now stands at over 350....