Medical board confirms death row prisoner in Lahore suffers from schizophrenia
(DAWN – Rana Bilal) A medical board constituted on the orders of a Lahore sessions court has confirmed that a 50-year-old prisoner who was previously scheduled to be executed suffers
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 presents
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
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 languishing
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 one
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 policy
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 have
Redesigning Pakistani prisons must for reforming inmates: Sindh Prisons IG
(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 architecture
Govt has approved prisoner transfer agreement with KSA, LHC told
(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 of
Report on Pakistanis in Saudi jails submitted to LHC
(THE NEWS) LAHORE: Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a non-profit organisation working for prisoners’ rights, on Monday furnished a report before the Lahore High Court pertaining to ordeal of Pakistani citizens
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