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Jail Dy superintendent booked for torturing prisoner
Police Friday registered a case against 12 staffers, including a deputy superintendent, for allegedly torturing a prisoner at Shahpur Jail. Ghulam Gilani, an accused involved in a murder case at Shahpur Jail alleged in his petition to the Additional Sessions court that 12 staffers, including Deputy Superintendent Baber Naeem, Assistant Superintendent Waqar Ahmad, Aslam Hayat, […]
Bahrain : Rights groups condemn death penalty sentence of Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa
Paris, 16 December 2015 – The undersigned organisations condemn the practice of capital punishment in Bahrain and urge the Government of Bahrain to commute any and all death sentences issued by its courts. On 29th December 2014, a Bahraini criminal court sentenced Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa to death for their alleged involvement in […]
Detained youngster found ‘hanged’
FAISALABAD: A 26-year-old suspect died in mysterious circumstances at the Batala Colony police lockup on Monday night. Police said Ahsan of Chiniot committed suicide by hanging himself but his family alleged that police strangled him. Sources said Ahsan was in police custody in connection with a kidnap for ransom case. The distressed family and their […]
Torture of widow, family: 12 policemen booked
OKARA: The Okara Saddar police after a four-month delay registered a case against 12 police officials, including the then station house officer (SHO) of City B Division police station, on the directions of the Lahore High Court. Some four months back, then SHO Sibghatullah, ASI Shan Bhatti and 10 unidentified policemen of the City B […]
HRCP calls for stay of execution
Lahore, December 15: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the President to stay the execution of Syed Saqi Shah who is scheduled to be hanged tomorrow (December 16). In a statement issued here today the commission said. “Yet another case of a murder convict who is reported to have been a […]
Ecuador: Increase of the criminalisation of social protest in the context of extraction plans
Paris, Quito, 10 December 2015. FIDH and its member organisations in Ecuador, CEDHU and INREDH present and publish today a report (in spanish) analysing the phenomenon of criminalisation of social protest in Ecuador and urge the State to recognise the importance of freedom of speech and the legitimacy of peaceful denunciation, opposition and monitoring of […]
Malaysia: Former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim must be freed
Kuala Lumpur, Paris, 10 December 2015 – Malaysian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and allow him to receive proper medical attention, FIDH and its member organization Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) said today on the 10-month anniversary of Anwar’s latest imprisonment. Anwar is currently incarcerated in Sungai Buloh prison, Selangor […]
First sentence under the new anti-protest legislation in Russia: Three years for Ildar Dadin while two more activists face conviction
Paris, Moscow, 11 December 2015 – FIDH and its member organisation “Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial” strongly condemn the sentence of Russian human rights activist Ildar Dadin to three years in closed detention facility for merely expressing his views. Ildar Dadin is famous for organising stand-alone protests holding banners with inscriptions criticizing Russia’s government policies. In a […]
