(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Saqib Bashir) The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered the release of over 400 prisoners as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to...
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE) The Lahore High Court (LHC) has instructed the superintendents of jails to file bail applications of accused and convicts of various categories for their release to...
(DAWN – Ishaq Tonoli & Tahir Siddiqui) KARACHI: On a Sindh High Court order, the district courts have released 829 prisoners involved in minor crimes from the detention facilities...
(DAWN – Mohammad Asghar) RAWALPINDI: The prison authorities have established emergency quarantine units in all jails across Punjab to protect the inmates from the coronavirus. A separate ward/barrack having...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
