Mir Aimal Kasi's execution, originally scheduled for 7 November, is now due to take place on 14 November. A final appeal to the US Supreme Court was filed by Mir ...
1.) USA: Child executions banned; 2.) Mexico abolishes the death penalty; 3.) UN calls abolition "essential" for human rights; 4.) New UN quinquennial report on ...
Mass arrests of opposition activists in Pakistan have increased inscale to such a degree that it's reported that there are no places leftin jails to hold them.
Of the approximately 4500 children in Pakistan's prisons in June 2003 more than 3000 of them had not been convicted of any crime. Despite conviction rates as low ...
In 2006 the Supreme Court took up regular hearings of petitions filed on behalf of Pakistan's 'disappeared'. However, in November 2007, Pervez Musharraf imposed ...
The Pakistani government should act immediately to protect hundreds of thousands of people from insurgents in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the country, Amnesty ...
