(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 – 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...
(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...
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) LAHORE: The Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) denounced the beheading of yet another Pakistani citizen, Mohammad Imran, in Shumaisi prison of Jeddah on Thursday. Read more…...
(DAWN-Asma Shafi) The following is narrated by Asma Shafi to Natasha Zai of Justice Project Pakistan about her brother Ali (not his real name), who was entrapped by overseas...
(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...
(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...
(THE NATION – Fida Hussnain) LAHORE – Justice Project Pakistan, a non-profit organisation working for prisoners’ rights, on Monday informed the Lahore High Court that at least 67 Pakistanis...
