Pakistan 2009
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Pakistan in 2009
- JUNE 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Session judge Waseem Akhtar awarded the death sentence to Muhammad Hassan of Arif Wala over a murder case investigated by the Garh police station. A lady involved in this case was acquitted by giving benefit of doubt.
- JUNE 29, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 10 AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 13
the Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) No 1 in Multan, Pakistan, awarded the death sentence to ten people for killing thirteen members of a family over an old enmity in the Lodhran district on four occasions.
- JUNE 25, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanaullah Khan Niazi handed down capital punishment with a fine of Rs 500,000 to an accused involved in a murder case of Gunjial police station in Pakistan.
- JUNE 24, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SC FOR TAKING EXTRA CARE WHILE AWARDING DEATH
the Supreme Court of Pakistan advised Courts to observe extreme care while choosing to award the death penalty.
- JUNE 24, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN COURT REJECTS INDIAN'S DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL
Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Indian man Sarabjit Singh to have his 1991 death sentence for spying and terrorism in Mumbai overturned.
- JUNE 24, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: IHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF A CONVICT INTO LIFE TERM
a divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in Pakistan...
- JUNE 22, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN HANDED SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER CASE
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge South Abdul Razzak sentenced Mohammed Bux Umrani to death for the October 2004 murder of TV star Afreen Beg
- JUNE 21, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SC ADJOURNS SARABJIT'S CASE HEARING
Pakistan's Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of a review petition challenging the death sentence given to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 till June 23rd.
- JUNE 20, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: AI ASKS ZARDARI TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCES
Amnesty International (AI) called upon Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to mark Benazir Bhutto’s birthday by commuting all death sentences to life imprisonment.
- JUNE 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC DISMISSES APPEALS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Sindh High Court in Pakistan dismissed appeal challenging capital punishment awarded to two accused by Special Judge-II (CNS) Karachi.
- JUNE 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
2 BROTHERS AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER OF COUSIN
the court of Additional Sessions Judge Gambat Syed Manzar Hussain Zaidi awarded capital punishment to two brothers in Khairpur, Pakistan.
- JUNE 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF THREE KIDNAP ACCUSED SET ASIDE
the Sindh High Court (SHC) in Pakistan set aside the death sentences awarded to three accused in the kidnapping of an Aligarh University student in 2005
JUNE 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY
Additional district and session judge Kasur Aaqil Hussain Chohan awarded the death
- MAY 26, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC DISMISSES APPEAL OVER DOUBLE MURDER
the Appellate Bench of the Sindh High Court in Pakistan dismissed the appeal of a man sentenced to death for murdering two people in Karachi in 2002.
- MAY 18, 2009United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: PAKISTANI’S DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD IN DUBAI
a clerk who convicted of murdering a guard and setting a showroom on fire after failing to steal Dh458,000 had his death sentence confirmed by the Dubai Court of Cassation.
- MAY 17, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN EXECUTE FC SOLDIER IN MOHMAND
local Taliban in the Mohmand Agency in Pakistan executed a soldier of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).
- MAY 12, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mehr Tahir Nawaz sentenced Ilyas, of chak 71-JBalong, to death.
- MAY 8, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Masood Akhtar awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on him.
- MAY 8, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: LHC CJ CALLS RECORD OF DEATH ROW CONVICT FOR 16 YEARS
Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif took suo motu notice of a condemned prisoner, Aftab Masih, who has been on death row for the past 16 years because his appeal has not been heard.
- MAY 5, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SHC ACQUITS TWO IN SHERATON HOTEL BLAST CASE
the Sindh High Court (SHC) in Pakistan acquitted two men charged with a bomb blast outside the Karachi Sheraton Hotel in May 2002 that killed several people
- MAY 2, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: PAK DEATH ROW PRISONER SEEKS HELP FROM BILAWAL
the legal team for a Pakistani death row prisoner wrote an open letter to ruling PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, asking him to help commute the death sentence into life imprisonment.
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SON AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE, FATHER ACQUITTED
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mustafa Tanvir Safwat awarded the death sentence to a murder accused and imposed a fine of Rs100,000. Muhammad Ikhlaq, his father Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad Zulfiqar and Muhamma
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, handed down the death sentence to two for kidnapping and killing a boy for ransom.
- APRIL 30, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE OF 3 CONVICTS COMMUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
in Pakistan, a bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Chief Justice Muhammad Bilal Khan and Justice Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry commuted the death sentence of three convicts in a narcotics case into life imprisonment.
- APRIL 28, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Abdul Haq awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to a woman for the murder of woman’s husband.
- APRIL 21, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN EXECUTES TWO CHRISTIANS IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN
International Christian Concern (ICC) learned that the Taliban in Pakistan executed two residents after Christians held a rally protesting graffiti ordering them to convert to Islam or die.
- APRIL 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE REDUCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
a division bench of the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, consisting of Justice Tariq Shamim and Justice Saifur Rehman, reduced the death sentence of three robbers, including two women, to life imprisonment.
- APRIL 16, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING THEIR FATHER
two brothers in Sindh, Pakistan, were condemned to death. Malik Dino and Muhammad Khan allegedly killed their father, Badaruddin Mangrejo, and threw his body into the canal in 2007.
APRIL 13, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ISLAMIC LAW NOW OFFICIAL FOR SWAT VALLEY
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari signed a controversial bill introducing Islamic
APRIL 10, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDS, WOMEN ABOLISHED
the Lahore High Court in Pakistan abolished the death sentence for under-trial women