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Rights Watch | 26th January 2021

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Rawalpindi couple convicted of abducting, raping and blackmailing a student with footage of her assault, accused gets death penalty while his wife gets life term. A young university student who was abandoned by her paramour at the emergency ward of a Lahore hospital died due to a botched abortion, police have arrested the suspect as well as his accomplice. Civil society organizations express serious concern over amendment to KP child protection law that will make public videos of executions of sex offenders.

Rights Watch | 19th July 2021

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Baldia police have arrested one Umer Khalid for allegedly torturing his wife, a mother of four, to death on Thursday.
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Rights Watch | 9th June 2020

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Another Custodial Death: One Allah Wasaya was taken into custody and tortured by 12 policemen at CIA Staff station, Lodhran where he died: FIR. Police demanded Rs300,000 to release his body before it was shifted to DHQ Lodhran on Monday ...
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Rights Watch | November 6th 2020

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-Lahore man arrested for mother’s Honor Killing -A man convicted for the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar has been acquitted in a case of illegal arms possession in Karachi
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Rights Watch | 24th March 2021

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The body of a young woman, later identified as Zameera, was discovered at a construction site in Madina Colony, Manghopir, Malir, on Tuesday. Police have detained her husband Ghulam Haider and her brother for questioning in what is being investigated as a possible 'honour' killing. For more human rights news, keep reading.
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Rights Watch | 4th January 2021

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A man gunned down his wife and her alleged lover in a village in Bannu; Dijkot police are on the hunt for two accused who had fled after they were discovered raping a nine-year-old boy; the FIA arrested a Karachi cleric for molesting a thirteen-year-old girl and blackmailing her family with sexually explicit images of the minor.
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Rights Watch | 2nd December 2020

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Barang tehsil's first police station inaugurated in Memola Town; Rawalpindi police move court to open inquiry into death of youth who sustained bullet wounds during a police raid; polio vaccination campaign in Thorhi Bijar village of Qambar-Shahdatkot district in Sindh temporarily disrupted by local imam.
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Rights Watch | 10th July 2020

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CHILD DOMESTIC WORKER TORTURED: The Punjab Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) recovered 8 year old Sana from her abusive employers in Lahore after receiving a tipoff on their 1121 helpline. The girl had been employed as a ...
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Rights Watch | 06th July 2020

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Honour Killing: One Tanveer Gadhi was shot dead in the name of honour by Gulraiz Gadhi and 8 other men in Chak 271/GB of Rajana District Toba Tek Singh. Gulriaz was pardoned by his family for killing his sister for allegedly having an affair ...
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Rights Watch | November 30th 2020

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Christians have held a demonstration outside Hyderabad Press Club to protest forced conversion and forced marriage of girls from the community