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29 Years on Death Row, Pakistan Woman Suffers Mental Illness
- April 10
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- Death Row, Mental Health, News
(THE NEW YORK TIMES – AP) ISLAMABAD — Kanizan Bibi was 16 when she was charged with murdering her employer’s wife and five children. The police said she was having
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Infected Prisoners
- April 09
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(DAWN – Editorial) ON Monday, the Supreme Court overturned earlier judgements made by the high courts to release under-trial prisoners in light of the coronavirus epidemic. Fearing the spread of
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Sick, disabled prisoners need extra care to control COVID-19 in jails
(THE NEWS – Myra Imran) Islamabad: Sick and disabled prisoners in crowded Pakistani jails required extra healthcare as they are more vulnerable to contracting the Coronavirus because of their weakened
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Prisoner release
- April 03
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(THE NEWS – Editorial) The concerns expressed by the SC regarding the issue of release of prisoners due to the corona outbreak are undoubtedly valid to some degree. Indeed, corruption
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Opinion: Pakistan needs to quickly reduce its prison populations
- April 01
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(SAMAA – Asad Jamal) Pakistan’s Supreme Court has recently suspended orders given by the high courts and provincial governments that sought to send prisoners home so that coronavirus (COVID -19)
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Prisoners in a pandemic
- March 26
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(THE NEWS) The finding that a prisoner at Camp Jail Lahore has tested positive for the coronavirus raises many fears. This prisoner had reached the country from Italy in February,
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SHRC concerned about prisoners amid virus spread
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) KARACHI: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has expressed grave concern for prisoners in Sindh’s jails on Wednesday. As the spread of the coronavirus pandemic to
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Government urged to protect prisoners from coronavirus
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) KARACHI: As Pakistan records its seven deaths because of the Covid-19 outbreak, the rights groups on Tuesday asked the authorities to take necessary measures to protect
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Pakistani prisons house 77,275 inmates against authorised capacity of 57,742
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Rizwan shehzad) The federal ombudsman on Tuesday directed the provincial chief and home secretaries as well as inspectors general of jails across the country to take
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Sitting ducks
- March 24
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- COVID19, News, Opinion & Editorial
(DAWN – Ali Haider Habib) AS we are all feeling a little caged with the social distancing and self-isolation, it is probably a good time to think of prisoners around