Pakistan 2010
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Pakistan in 2010
- OCTOBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Gilgit District and Session Court judge Khurshid Alam sentenced Darel resident Gandal Shah to death and awarded him one year imprisonment for murdering Noor-ul-Haq...
- OCTOBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT,RS 100,000 FINE
in Pakistan, Kasur Additional District & Sessions Judge Jawad ul Hassan sentenced Iftikhar Ahmed to death for shooting dead religious scholar Sanaullah in 2003 under B-division police station and fined him Rs 100,000.
- OCTOBER 16, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO KIDNAPPER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorism Court Judge Raja Pervaiz Arshad sentenced Shehbaz, a Chenchal Singh Walar resident, to death for abducting Ali Raza for Rs500,000 ransom under Jaranwala City police station. His property was also confiscated.
- OCTOBER 11, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: CONVICTS MOVE SHC AGAINST SENTENCE
Sultan Mahmood, alias Saifullah, Mohammad Amin, alias Khalid Shaheen, and Mohammad Rehman appealed their death sentence to the Sindh High Court in Pakistan for killing noted Shia Cleric Allama Hassan Turabi and his nephew on July 14, 2006.
- OCTOBER 8, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: HRCP URGES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) called upon the government to take early and meaningful steps toward abolition of the death penalty in the country as well as immediately make the informal moratorium on executions formal in a statement issue
- OCTOBER 7, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Pakistan, Liaquatpur Additional District & Sessions Judge Masood Hussain sentenced Mohib Shah to death and fined him Rs 0.5million. Zarina Mai, a Mosa Tanwari resident, allegedly killed her husband Hazoor Bux with the help of Mohib Shah in 2008.
- OCTOBER 5, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Tahir Butt to death and fined him Rs200,000 for murdering Asif Mir.
- OCTOBER 3, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE ON TWO COUNTS
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir, alias Chand, was sentenced to death and life imprisonment...
- OCTOBER 1, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GESTS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN MURDER CASE
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Ch.Ghulam...
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Ali Imran sentenced Tariq Mehmood to death for killing Mazhar Hussain on May 23, 2008, after he divorced the sister of Tariq’s wife.
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE ON THREE COUNTS
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Anti Terrorist Court Judge Raja Muhammad Arshad sentenced Muhammad...
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: EIGHT AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
in Pakistan, Administrative Judge Raja Shah Baz Khan of the Gilgit-Baltistan
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Daska, Pakistan, Additional session judge Sheikh Ijaz Ahmed sentenced Imran to death for shooting dead Aslam over a monetary dispute under Saddar police station on May 27, 2008.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE CONVERTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
a full bench of the Federal Shariat Court in Pakistan converted the death sentence of two convicts awarded by a session court in a rape case into life imprisonment and set aside their punishment of whipping.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO 3 IN ALLAMA TURABI'S MURDER CASE
Judge Anand Ram of the Special Anti-Terror Court No. 3 in Karachi, Pakistan...
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KASAB CHALLENGES DEATH PENALTY IN BOMBAY HIGH COURT
Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court in India challenging the death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 people on November 26, 2008.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING RELATIVE
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Mehtab Khan to death and ordered him to pay Rs 200,000 compensation.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
TALIBAN MILITANTS STONE WOMAN TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN
Taliban militants stoned a woman to death in Orakzai, Pakistan.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO THREE FOR MURDER
in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Additional Sessions Judge Sammundri Rai Hafeez Ullah Khan sentenced Tariq and his brother Abid and Raheel to death for murdering M Ashfaq of Chak No.209-GB over a minor dispute two years ago.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, additional district and sessions judge Raja Pervaiz Akhtar sentenced Khizar Iqbal to death for killing his rival Sajid Mehmood in September 2007 over a family feud and fined him Rs200,000.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Lahore, Pakistan, an additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man identifed as Ayaz to death for burning his wife to death under the Mustafabad police area in 2008 and fined him Rs50,000.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sajjad Hussain Sindhar sentenced Mohammad Khizar to death for murdering Babar Hussain, 26, and ordered him to pay Rs500,000 compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ATC AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Sargodha, Pakistan, Anti-Terrorist Court Special judge Mian Anwar Nazir sentenced Kafayat Ullah and Abdul Sattar to death and 34 years rigorous jail on four counts and fined them Rs 580,000.
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Chitral, Pakistan, an Additional Sessions judge sentenced Sher Hakim of Terich village to death for murdering his wife Safia Bibi and a relative Shakil Ahmed on July 28, 2009 suspecting them of having illicit relations.
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH ON TWO COUNTS
in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Pervaiz Akhtar sentenced Raheemullah to death and fined him Rs200,000 for killing Salman, 7, after sexually assaulting him.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN MURDER CASE
in Islamabad, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Iqbal sentenced Wahid Gul to death for killing Shaheen Akhtar and wounding six others over a petty dispute on August 4, 2008.
- AUGUST 21, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TRIBESMAN EXECUTED FOR SPYING ON TALIBAN
tribesmen Shabir Jan and Badsha Wali, both from Razmak, were executed by the Taliban in Miranshah, Pakistan, on charges of spying.
- AUGUST 21, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
in Gujranwala, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge Muhammad Abdul Nasir sentenced Bashir Ahmad to death and fined him Rs 100,000.
- AUGUST 12, 2010PakistanDEATH PENALTY
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- AUGUST 9, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
SARABJIT SINGH'S DEATH SENTENCE 'STAYED' BY MUSHARRAF GOVERNMENT: ZARDARI'S OFFICE
Pakistan said that Indian national Sarabjit Singh's mercy petition is not pending in President Asif Ali Zardari's office, as his execution was already stayed by the 'previous government'.
