29 Years on Death Row, Pakistan Woman Suffers Mental Illness
(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...
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...
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...
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...
Prisoners in a pandemic
(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...
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