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Three Faisalabad cops booked for torture, illegal detention
FAISALABAD: On the orders of District and Sessions Judge Abid Hussain Qureshi, Madina Town police have registered a case against it former SHO Ali Imran, ASI Shafqatullah and a constable on the charges of torturing a man and his son and keeping them in illegal detention. In a petition, Muhammad Afzal of Khayaban Colony alleged […]
Rights body to take up student’s torture case
FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, has decided to take up the issue of police torture of MSc (hons) degree holder Sheraz Nawaz. Punjab Medical College Associate Professor (Forensic Medicine & Toxicology) Dr Khurram Sohail Raja, adviser to the commission on torture cases, told Dawn that it’s a typical case of police torture. […]
Saudi Arabia: Don’t deport Sudanese journalist to Sudan
5 September 2015 – Saudi Arabian authorities should release and refrain from deporting the Sudanese journalist Waleed Aldoud Al-Mekki Al-Hussein, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said today. […]
Eight policemen held for suspect’s death in custody
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Pirmahal police on Wednesday arrested a sub-inspector and seven other policemen after registering a case under Section 155C of the Police Order 2002 over the death of suspected killer Mohsin Nazir in custody. District Police Officer Rana Shahzad Akbar had deputed DSP Mahmood Haroon to inquire into allegations of Nazir’s death […]
SHC moved over three ‘custodial killings’
SUKKUR: The wife of a man, who along with his son and another relative, is allegedly under illegal detention of the Sukkur police, filed a petition in the Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, for the release of the victims and an inquiry against the police into the “extra-judicial killing of her son and two other […]
UAF graduate tortured in police custody: report
FAISALABAD: A report by a medical board of the District Headquarters Hospital says Sheraz Nawaz, held in a theft case on the complaint of ruling MPA Tahir Jamil, was brutally tortured in Mansoorabad police custody. The MSc student of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), was arrested by the Mansoorabad police on Aug 25 in […]
Law and order: Policemen arrested over custodial death
FAISALABAD: Pir Mehal police on Friday claimed to have arrested 10 people, including six policemen, over the death of a murder suspect in police custody. A spokesman told The Express Tribune that Pir Mehal police had arrested Nadeem and his brother Waseem for their role in a murder. He said during interrogation, Nadeem fainted and was […]
