(THE NEW YORK TIMES – The Associated Press) ISLAMABAD — A rights group says court-appointed doctors have confirmed that a death row prisoner in Pakistan suffers from chronic schizophrenia and...
(DAWN – Rana Bilal) A medical board constituted on the orders of a Lahore sessions court has confirmed that a 50-year-old prisoner who was previously scheduled to be executed...
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Ahtshamul Haq) With the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) set to conduct hearings into nearly 1,500 instances of police torture in Faisalabad, The Express Tribune...
(DAWN – Mohammad Reza Nezafa) Zulfiqar Ali, a 54-year-old terminally-ill Pakistani on death row in Indonesia, passed away on May 31, 2018. He was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to...
(DAWN – Rimmel Mohydin) IT is an election year. You would think that the government would be all over an easy win. Zulfiqar Ali offered that. An innocent Pakistani citizen...
(DAILY TIMES – News Desk) FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights conducted its Preliminary Investigation into nearly 1,500 cases of torture reported by Justice Project Pakistan in just...
(THE NATION – Ashraf Javed) LAHORE – The fate of thousands of death-row prisoners hangs in the balance as the federal government failed to come up with a clear-cut...
(GEO – Yasal Munim) KARACHI: Overspilling with sewage and inmates, the prisons in Pakistan do little for the rehabilitation of prisoners. Pakistani prisons house 84,287 inmates in jails that only...
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE) There is a dire need to redesign Pakistan’s prisons to reform inmates, these remarks were made by Sindh Prisons IG Nusrat Mangan while speaking at an...
(DAILY TIMES) Lahore: The Lahore High Court has admitted the findings of the joint report prepared by the Justice Project Pakistan and the Human Rights Watch regarding the plight...
