Pakistan 2016
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Pakistan in 2016
DECEMBER 26, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE REVOKED ONE DAY AHEAD OF EXECUTION
Ghulam Abbas Suhani had to be hanged on December 27 but the execution was stopped today, just one
DECEMBER 24, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FIRST CONVICT HANGED AFTER THREE MONTHS
A 70-year-old death-row convict was hanged in Rawalpindi’ Adiala jail after a span of 20 years.
DECEMBER 16, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES OF 13 TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff confirmed death sentences awarded to another 13 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, slaughtering civilians and security forces.
- DECEMBER 5, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: ARMY CHIEF CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF FOUR HARDCORE TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Bajwa confirmed death sentences awarded to another four hardcore terrorists.
NOVEMBER 24, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER OF THREE HANGED TO DEATH
A Daska-based murder convict was hanged to death in the Sialkot district jail. According to the Sialkot
- NOVEMBER 24, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO MURDER CONVICTS HANDED DEATH PENALTY
Anti-Terrorism Court in Hyderabad sentenced two persons to death for killing a person in 2015, who had refused to pay them ‘bhatta’.
NOVEMBER 23, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH SENTENCES FOR KILLERS OF CHRISTIAN COUPLE
A Pakistani anti-terror court sentenced five people to death over the killing of a Christian couple who were lynched and burned in a kiln after being falsely accused of blasphemy.
NOVEMBER 22, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: COAS CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF ANOTHER 10 HARDCORE TERRORISTS
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif confirmed death sentences awarded to another 10 hardcore terrorists.
- OCTOBER 31, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF TWO MURDERERS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Supreme Court (SC) converted the death penalty of two murder convicts to life imprisonment.
OCTOBER 31, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC STAYS HANGING OF MENTALLY ILL CONVICT IMDAD ALI
Supreme Court stayed the execution of Imdad Ali, a schizophrenic man convicted in 2002 for murdering a
- OCTOBER 25, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FATHER IS SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER MURDERING HIS DAUGHTER BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T BAKE 'PERFECT BREAD'
A father has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after he confessed to killing his daughter because she wasn't able to bake perfect bread.
- OCTOBER 21, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT SAYS SCHIZOPHRENIA NOT A MENTAL DISORDER, DISMISSES MERCY PLEA OF DEATH ROW CONVICT
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that schizophrenia is not a mental disorder as per the law of the land,
- OCTOBER 13, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: GENERAL SHARIF SIGNS DEATH WARRANTS OF TEN TERRORISTS
Chief of the Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif signed death warrants of ten terrorists who were tried by military courts.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MENTALLY ILL MAN
An international rights group says Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty against a mentally
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN STAYS EXECUTION OF MENTALLY ILL MAN
A Pakistani official said the Supreme court has temporarily stayed the execution of a mentally ill man.
- JULY 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS EXECUTED IN SAHIWAL, SARGODHA JAIL
Two death row prisoners Ghulam Mustafa and Sibtain were executed in Central jail of Sahiwal and Sargodha’s district jail respectively.
JULY 26, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN SIALKOT JAIL
A murder convict was hanged in the morning at Sialkot District Jail.
JULY 18, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS HANGED IN ADIALA JAIL
Two murder convicts were hanged in the morning in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
JULY 7, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH WITHOUT HEARING EVIDENCE
A judge in Pakistan's anti-terrorism court heard no hard evidence, yet sentenced a Christian school principal to death under the charges of blasphemy.
- JUNE 27, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
An Anti-Terrorism Court in Gujranwala sentenced two Christian and one Muslim man to death for
JUNE 16, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: SC RESTORES DEATH SENTENCE OF PML-N MNA
The Supreme Court restored the death sentence of PML-N MNA Abid Raza in a murder case, saying that a convict sentenced under Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) cannot be acquitted.
JUNE 8, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN JUDGE MURDER CASE
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi handed down death sentence to three men convicted of
- JUNE 6, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: KILLER OF THREE EXECUTED IN MULTAN
A death row prisoner involved in killing three persons over a property dispute was executed in
- JUNE 1, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: DEATH ROW CONVICT EXECUTED IN SAHIWAL
A death convict Hamed Akhtar was hanged to death in Sahiwal while security was tightened in and out
MAY 31, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CONVICTED FOR RELATIVE MURDER HANGED IN ATTOCK
A condemned prisoner was hanged in district jail Attock early in the morning.
MAY 26, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CONVICTED MURDERER HANGED IN TIMERGARA
A death row inmate was executed at the District Jail Timergara early the morning, official sources said.
MAY 24, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FIVE NAVAL OFFICERS GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR ATTACK ON DOCKYARD
Five navy officers were given the death sentence by a Navy court in Pakistan for planning to hijack a
- MAY 10, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: THREE DEATH ROW CONVICTS HANGED IN ADIALA, SAHIWAL JAIL
Pakistan put to death three prisoners convicted of murder in different cases.
- MAY 4, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FIVE MURDER CONVICTS HANGED IN KOT LAKHPAT AND MIANWALI
Five murder convicts were executed between 4 and 5 May in two different jails.
MAY 3, 2016PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: DEATH ROW INMATE EXECUTED IN SARGODHA, CONVICT’S EXECUTION HALTED IN JHANG
A death row convict was hanged to death in Sargodha while another death row inmate execution halted in Jhang.