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 had ordered authorities to halt the execution of her son Abdul Basit in January, hours before he was to be hanged; that stay of execution order has now expired.

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