Tag: prisoners
Rights Watch | 14 March 2023
Punjab Launches Health Screening for 55,000 Prisoners Across 43 Jails to Combat Communicable Diseases
Punjab begins health screening of prisoners for communicable diseases, with the...
KP prison authorities deny right of appeal to military courts death-row convicts: Counsel
The prison authorities in KP have declined to send appeals of five death-row prisoners convicted by military courts to the Supreme Court and their execution is likely to go ahead without them exercising their right of appeal, lawyer-activist Shabbir Hussain Gigyani has told Voicepk.net.
Pakistan’s Overcrowded Prisons Face New Challenges as PTI Launches “Jail Bharo Tehreek”
PTI launches "Jail Bharo Tehreek" in Lahore against rights violations, abuse of the Constitution, inflation & economic meltdown. But with prisons already operating at 144% capacity, the move may put more pressure on the already burdened system & increase the risk of diseases among inmates.
Rights Watch | 14th February 2023
12-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide by in a Private School in Hyderabad
12-year-old girl, Memoona, reportedly committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of a...
Convicts can now be freed on probation, community service in KP
Convicts in KP can now can be released on probation from 6 months to 3 years
Judicial body for cross border prisoners’ rights must be revived
Human rights activists and experts while discussing the plight of Pakistani and Indian prisoners in either country's jails, have called for the revival of the joint judicial commission on prisoners.
Rights Watch | 22nd May 2020
Violence Against Women: Arifwala Saddar police in Sahiwal arrested a man in Chak 72-EB for shooting his sister-in-law dead for refusing to divorce his elder brother and marry him. The victim, Rabia Bibi, married the suspect’s elder brother ...
Rights Watch | 21st May 2020
Husband Beats Wife To Death In Jaranwala
A resident of Chak 145-GB Jaranwala, Faisalabad, beat his wife to death with a club following a domestic dispute on Wednesday, May 20. There has been a disturbing increase in incidents of domestic abuse ...
Freedom a Distant Dream For Prisoners as SC Pulls Back Bails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbp_bUJMaTY
By Ahmed Saeed
High courts have no authority for suo moto: SCP
On Tuesday, April 7, the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) rolled back under trial...
زیر حراست قیدیوں کو رہا کرنے پر سپریم کورٹ سندھ ہائی کورٹ پر برہم:...
آج سپریم کورٹ آف پاکستان میں کورونا وائرس کے پھیلاو کے خطرے کے پیش نظر زیر سماعت قیدیوں کی ضمانت پر رہائی کے لئے...