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January 22, 2024

Pakistan: the struggle for prison reform

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Pakistan’s prisons remain terribly overcrowded and under-resourced, and nascent efforts at progressive reform are stymied by ingrained attitudes of discrimination, including against religious and ethnic minorities.

July 7, 2023

Pakistan: Chaman jailbreak sheds light on decrepit condition of facility

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Facility almost a century-old and has not undergone renovation since its construction, jail administration reveals

April 3, 2023

Pakistan: HRW report overcrowded prisons highlights abuses

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Some jail cells, the report says, are holding as many as 15 prisoners when they were designed for just three people.

October 18, 2022

Pakistan: submerged and forgotten

Interview

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Pakistan experienced torrential rains between June and September 2022. The floods submerged a third of the country. What about prisons? Zainab Mahboob and Fakhra Irshad from Justice Project Pakistan shared with us what they know about the current situation. Interview.

January 18, 2022

Pakistan: detention conditions of people sentenced to death

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In 2015, Pakistan accounted for 20% of executions worldwide. However, 2020 saw a suspension of executions and a decline in sentences. Currently, there are more than 4,000 prisoners sentenced to death awaiting execution.

September 9, 2021

Pakistan: implementing best practices in Sindh’s ‘correctional facilities’

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Interview with the IG Prison Sindh, Kazi Nazir Ahmed.

February 15, 2021

Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental

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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

December 22, 2020

Pakistan: prison reform needed

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A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a r…

July 15, 2020

Pakistan: dragged to Hell

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Ashraf had his death sentence converted to life imprisonment. He was held during 18 years, and his spiritual life made him hold on to life while incarcerated. This is his story.

November 20, 2019

Pakistan: 18 years in a death cell despite his innocence

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Safeer was sentenced to death. He served 18 years and has now been released on bail to await his Supreme Court appeal. Excerpts.

October 9, 2019

Pakistan: letters from death row; life after prison

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A man who survives two decades on death row struggles to build a new life after prison.

September 15, 2019

Pakistan: decoding the prison class system

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The recent accountability drive has seen a number of high-profile prisoners — including former president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi — demanding that they be provided better class facilities in jail. However, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in its latest…

September 3, 2019

Pakistan: efforts being made to shift Karachi central prison, PA told

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KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was told on Monday that the provincial government was making efforts to shift the Karachi central prison from the centre of the city.

June 15, 2017

Pakistan : Bilawal condemns police torture on young docs

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KARACHI - The Chairman, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned brutal police torture against young doctors in Peshawar.

June 12, 2017

Pakistan: 'Facebook blasphemer' given death penalty

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Taimoor Raza was convicted after allegedly posting remarks about the Prophet Muhammad, his wives and companions within the site’s comments. The public prosecutor involved said he believed it was the first time the death penalty had been awarded in a case related to social media. Human rights campai…

April 11, 2017

Pakistan: 'Depoliticisation of police is a must for effective criminal justice system'

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Depoliticisation of the police is a must for effective working of the criminal justice system in Pakistan.

February 18, 2017

Pakistan: flawed justice system: 10% of death row convicts children

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Asia Pakistan

Around 10 per cent of Pakistan’s death row convicts are feared to be juvenile offenders, who have been sentenced to death in a clear violation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000 (JJSO) and the international obligations.