Pakistan 2002
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Pakistan in 2002
- MARCH 22, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British Islamist who confessed to masterminding the kidnapping of American reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan was charged with his murder and faces execution if convicted
- MARCH 14, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection...
A British-Born man was indicted in the US in connection with the kidnapping in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl whose murder was later filmed on video tape
- MARCH 9, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad...
The Additional Session Judge in Rawalpindi, Shahzad Pervez Abbasi, condemned Dr
- MARCH 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor...
The Attock District and Session Judge, Attock Manzoor Hussain Malik, condemned Ijaz Khan and Babar Zahir to death on separate murder charges
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Channel 4 [UK TV station] screened Lahore Law, a three-part...
Channel 4 [UK TV station] screened Lahore Law, a three-part documentary filmed in Pakistan's Civil and Criminal Courts
- FEBRUARY 2, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions Judge, Sohail Nasir, in Attock,...
An Additional Sessions Judge, Sohail Nasir, in Attock, Pakistan gave the death sentence to [a man identified only as] Pervez for an honour killing
- FEBRUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
In Lahore, Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed...
In Lahore, Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Maroof Ahmad Ali condemned Muhammad Khalid Saifullah to death for murdering his wife
- JANUARY 21, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An activist of a banned extremist organisation, convicted...
An activist of a banned extremist organisation, convicted of killing two policemen, will be executed on January 22 after President Pervez Musharraf rejected his mercy petition, police said
- JANUARY 13, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism...
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Faisalabad, gave the death sentence to Muhammad Ali for the murder of Muhammad Khan on March 31, 1999 during a robbery on the victim's property
- JANUARY 8, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Passing judgment in a murder-cum-robbery case Anti...
Passing judgment in a murder-cum-robbery case Anti Terrorist Court Judge Ch
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
749 Death sentences in 2001, till November 45 people...
749 Death sentences in 2001, till November 45 people were executed and the country's death row population was raised by another 591 convicts
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Child smuggling can carry the death penalty in Pakistan
Child smuggling can carry the death penalty in Pakistan
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained...
The Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000, remained largely unimplemented
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Under the Islamic Hudd Ordinance of 1979, death is...
Under the Islamic Hudd Ordinance of 1979, death is the only punishment for those found guilty of gang rapes involving at least two or more perpetrators
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000...
Pakistani judges handed down a total of more than 4,000 death sentences, in trials that international rights groups complain were often miscarriages of justice
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including...
The death penalty is imposed for several crimes, including robbery, hijacking, arms trading, drug trafficking, rape, and capital offenses, under Shari'a Law, introduced with governmental decrees, such as sexual relations between partners not married to ea
- JANUARY 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Smuggling more than a kilo of heroin carries the death...
Smuggling more than a kilo of heroin carries the death penalty in Pakistan