Tag: Enforced Disappearance
Rights Watch | March 30th 2022
In a video uploaded to social media Nazim Jokhio's wife Shireen has announced that she has decided to forgive the murderers of her husband.
63 missing, 37 killed in Balochistan in December 2021
According to figures released by the Human Rights Council of Balochistan, only during the month of December 2021, more than 63 people were abducted and are missing while 37 were killed in different parts of the disturbed and turbulent province
Missing NA bill on enforced disappearance found with Senate secretariat
The Senate Secretariat received a bill on criminilisation of enforced disappearance on November 10, two days after it was passed in the National Assembly putting a question mark on the reported statement of Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari about the bill going missing in transit to the upper house.
Naaru’s mother to PM: Find my son
"I will ask him, What’s the purpose of being a PM when you are helpless," says Rahat, mother of missing journalist Naaru
False claim of enforced disappearance will lead to 5 years in jail: NA panel
False claim of enforced disappearance punishable by up to 5 years
Civil Society demands dissolution of COIED
A provincial consultation meeting called for the establishment of a joint platform against enforced disappearances in Pakistan.
Bill on enforced disappearances inches towards vote in NA
A much-awaited bill on enforced disappearances has cleared another hurdle in the lower house of parliament
Top Officials Want Enforced Disappearances ‘Legalized’
As the protests against enforced disappearances grow louder and the world marks the International Day for Enforced Disappearances, in Pakistan, it may be the other way round.
CASE CLOSED: Man missing for 4 years was being confined in internment centre
Another Eid has passed away adding to the agony of Shrafat Bibi in Swat. Having searched frantically for her husband in the last fours years, she was finally informed last month that her husband is detained at an internment center.
UN panel calls upon raising penalties in proposed bill on enforced disappearances
A UN panel has called upon Pakistan to raise the proposed max sentence from 10 yrs to 25 yrs, & max 40 yrs for the offence of enforced disappearance