Tag: Death sentence
Death-row murder convict acquitted after spending six years in jail
AGHS Legal Aid Cell has helped a destitute death-row convict get an acquittal in a murder case after spending six years in jail.
Rights Watch | 31st August 2022
Tutor sentenced to death for girl's murder
A former tutor has been sentenced to death for the attempted rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl...
Rights Watch | 11th October 2021
A rickshaw driver saved five children from abduction in Karachi’s Baldia Town when he alerted police to the suspicious behaviour of the man riding with them. For more news on human rights concerns, keep reading.
Rights Watch | 31st March 2021
Police on Tuesday arrested a man for abducting and raping a twelve-year-old girl in his home in the jurisdiction of the Jand police station in Attock. A case was registered after a medical examination confirmed sexual assault. For more news on human rights abuses in Pakistan, keep reading.
Rights Watch | 28th January 2021
A junior doctor of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore was arrested for allegedly drugging and raping a woman. Khairpur police arrest 20 people for trying to marry a minor couple in Pir Goth, case registered under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act 2013. Lahore High Court acquits two death row inmates, who had been languishing in prison for the past nine years, over insufficient evidence.
