Policing as Torture in Faisalabad
(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...
Kindness and hope: What my Pakistani inmate Zulfiqar Ali taught me while on death row in Indonesia
(DAWN – Mohammad Reza Nezafa) Zulfiqar Ali, a 54-year-old terminally-ill Pakistani on death row in Indonesia, passed away on May 31, 2018. He was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to...
Death of a prisoner
(DAWN – Rimmel Mohydin) IT is an election year. You would think that the government would be all over an easy win. Zulfiqar Ali offered that. An innocent Pakistani citizen...
We will take action against police officials who commit torture: NCHR
(DAILY TIMES – News Desk) FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights conducted its Preliminary Investigation into nearly 1,500 cases of torture reported by Justice Project Pakistan in just...
Country’s death-row population increases to 8,000
(THE NATION – Ashraf Javed) LAHORE – The fate of thousands of death-row prisoners hangs in the balance as the federal government failed to come up with a clear-cut...
Rehabilitation still a distant dream for inmates in Karachi’s overcrowded prisons
(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...
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