Mental health in jails
(DAWN – Editorial) THE mind can be a prison for anyone afflicted with a mental health disorder. But for the countless mentally ill prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails, there...
Infected Prisoners
(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...
Prisoner release
(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,...
Opinion: Pakistan needs to quickly reduce its prison populations
(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...
Sitting ducks
(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...
Overcrowded prisons
(DAWN – Editorial) AS the country grapples with the grave challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Islamabad High Court has taken a welcome initiative to provide relief to the...
Prisoners and the pandemic
(THE NEWS – Foqia Sadiq Khan) The disease caused by the coronavirus is here in Pakistan. We need to think of the most vulnerable in our society. One group of...
My brother came home from a Saudi jail. Then I woke up from my dream
(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...