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    Christian Mother Asia Bibi's Death Sentence Appeal Delayed Again by Pakistan Supreme Court

    Asia Bibi, the Christian mother imprisoned on death row in Pakistan, will have her appeal hearing delayed yet again after the nation's Supreme Court rejected a request for her case to be heard in early June.

    Saiful Malook, Bibi's attorney, told the Pakistani news outlet The Express Tribune that Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar declined his client's request for an early hearing. As previously reported, Nisar, a Muslim lawyer, had submitted the request in mid-April for Bibi's case to be heard in the first week of June.

    "I have been informed that the plea was declined by the CJP," Malook told the Tribune.

    Bibi, who is also known as Aasiya Noreen and could become the first woman in Pakistan to be executed over a blasphemy allegation, has spent nearly eight years in prison after local Muslim women accused her of insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The women got angry because she drank from the same water bowl as them.

    As blasphemy, in some instances, in Pakistan is punishable by death or life in prison, Bibi was sentenced to death in November 2010 even though she maintained her innocence.

    "This is very unfortunate. Her husband became quiet when he heard the latest developments. We shall again apply for the hearing and keep struggling for justice," Joseph Nadeem, executive director of the Renaissance Education Foundation, told the Asia-based Catholic news outlet ucanews.com. "There are many factors at work behind the slow pace of judiciary. Her case has been in the doldrums due to huge pressure. There will be a strong reaction if Bibi is freed, opposing groups have made it a matter of honor and ego."

    Initially, Bibi appealed her death sentence to the Lahore High Court but her hearing was delayed at least seven times before her appeal was heard in October 2014 and her sentencing was upheld.

    Last summer, there was optimism that Bibi might finally have her appeal heard by the Pakistan Supreme Court. It was reported that Nisar had ordered Bibi's appeal to be heard in the second week of October 2016.

    However, the hearing was postponed. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, the hearing was delayed after Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman was recused from the case because he was the chief justice on the Islamabad High Court when that court upheld the conviction of the Muslim bodyguard who assassinated Punjab Gov. Salmaan Taseer in 2011. Gov Taseer had spoken out in defense of Bibi and against the nation's blasphemy laws.

    Since Pakistan instituted blasphemy laws in the 1980s, the laws have been used by Muslims to settle personal scores and target Christians and other religious minorities. Bibi is not the only Christian to have been victimized by the blasphemy laws.

    Last October, it was reported that a 9-year-old Christian boy was accused of burning the Quran. The boy and his mother were later arrested and claimed they were beaten and tortured by police.

    "Such atrocities have become routine. The plight of Bibi has had a dampening effect on minorities. Their grief cannot be addressed because of religious retrogressive and extremist groups. Islamists consider her freedom a defeat for their movement," Christian lawyer Naeem Shakir told ucanews.com.

    Pakistan currently ranks as the fourth worst country in the world when it comes to the persecution of Christians, according to Open Doors USA's 2017 World Watch List.

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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    SC acquits death row inmate after 12 years in jail

    ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Monday acquitted a death row inmate after he languished 12 long years behind the bars.

    A three-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa heard the appeal of convict against death sentence handed down to him by a trial court on charges of murdering three women.

    The convict, Basharat Ali, was booked in a case of murdering three women in Sialkot in 2005. A trial court had handed down death sentence to Ali which was also upheld by the Lahore High Court.

    The convict challenged the rejection of his appeal against the sentence by the LHC in the Supreme Court. Counsel of the convict Siddique Baloch pointed out contradictions in the prosecution case, saying that prosecution says the incident happened at 10am while the witnesses said it happened at 10pm.

    The court, after hearing arguments of the accused’s counsel, acquitted him for lack of evidence and contradictions in the statements of witnesses. Justice Khosa reprimanded the prosecution saying that the prosecution neither does its job properly not it has the courage to tell the truth.

    https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/207...-years-in-jail
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    Pakistan executes 465 people since lifting of death penalty ban

    Lahore (IANS) - At least 465 persons have been executed in Pakistan since the country lifted the ban on death penalty in December 2014, said a non-government organisation working for prisoners' rights. Such a high number of executions has made Pakistan the "fifth most prolific executioner" in the world, following China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Dawn online cited a data analysis by Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) as showing.

    The analysis said the use of death penalty has failed to curb crime, including terrorism. The death penalty is exceedingly being used as a political tool, sometimes even as a jail overcrowding solution.

    Punjab province, which accounts for 83 per cent of the executions and 89 per cent death sentences in Pakistan, has witnessed only a 9.7 per cent drop in murder rate between 2015 and 2016. Sindh province has, however, registered a drop of nearly 25 per cent in the same time period. The province carried out only 18 executions compared to 382 in Punjab.

    The analysis said murder rate in Pakistan was already on the decline before the moratorium was lifted, casting even more doubt on the already dubious relationship between the death penalty and crime reduction.

    Yearly trends of executions showed that anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) accounted for only 16 per cent of the executions.

    The JPP said the government sought to justify lifting of the moratorium for all 27 death-eligible crimes by claiming that it was necessary to deter terrorist threat to Pakistan. But the data said the government was mostly hanging terrorists through military courts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and through ATCs in Sindh.

    The research claimed that people are executed in Pakistan to make room in the overcrowded prisons. Currently, 25 of the 27 prisons in the province are significantly over-capacity and the highest number of executions take place in the most overcrowded prisons.

    The JPP in a statement said that Pakistan was heading for its first UN review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on July 11 that obligated it to uphold and respect the right to life for all citizens. It said Pakistan's return to an executing state has been taken up in the list of issues framed by the Human Rights Council committee. JPP Executive Director Sarah Belal said Pakistan's troubling and continued use of the death penalty had continuously fallen short of meeting its international human rights commitments and fair trial standards, as well as the country's own domestic laws.

    http://www.sify.com/news/pakistan-ex...ahahjecig.html

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    Pakistan: Death penalty by hanging challenged in high court

    A prisoner on death row has challenged the implementation of death penalty by hanging in the Peshawar High Court seeking the introduction of a less painful mode of execution in accordance with modern scientific developments.

    Kept at the Haripur Central Prison, Jan Bahadur filed the petition requesting the high court to declare the mode of hanging to death un-Islamic and unconstitutional insisting it is painful and against human values.

    He said Section 368 of the Code of Criminal Procedure stated, "When any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead."

    The petitioner requested the court to issue orders for ending the execution of death row prisoners by hanging declaring it cruel, painful, un-Islamic and inhuman.

    He added that the court should issue directives for the adoption of the mode of execution, which was not painful.

    Jan Bahadur, whose lawyer is Mohammad Khursheed Khan, said he was sentenced to death by an additional district and sessions judge on Apr 7, 2000, in Takht Bhai in connection with a 1993 murder case.

    He added that the judgment was upheld by the high court in 2002 and by the Supreme Court afterwards.

    The petitioner said his review petition and clemency petition were also rejected.

    The respondents in the petition are the provincial home secretary, superintendent of Haripur Central Prison, provincial law secretary, secretary to the Council of Islamic Ideology and Mardan district and sessions judge.

    The petitioner said there were 9 modes of carrying out death penalties, including death by through firing squad, gas chamber and electric chair, by hanging, shooting in the head, lethal injection, beheading, stoning and pushing from unspecified height.

    The petitioner claimed that in the past, in all the states of USA the mode of execution was through hanging.

    He added that the use of electric chair was devised, which was considered less painful.

    The petitioner however said in 1921, the State of Nevada introduced gas chamber for carrying out death penalty.

    He said in over 30 US states, the mode of execution is now through lethal injection, which was considered more humane and less painful.

    The petitioner said that through that mode 3 injections are administered to a death row prisoner, the 1st injection turned a prisoner unconscious, the 2nd made his body paralysed and the 3rd stopped his heart from functioning.

    He claimed that prisoners were executed through firing squad in 28 countries, whereas prisoners were killed by shooting in their heads in 22 countries.

    The petitioner claimed that some western researchers had declared death by hanging atrocious for different reasons.

    He added that the colonial rulers had introduced death by hanging through the CrPC in 1898 and after the creation of Pakistan, the same mode was adopted.

    https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co...label/Pakistan

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    Two murderers hanged in Punjab

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    SAHIWAL/JHANG: Two death row prisoners were hanged in Sahiwal and Jhang here Thursday morning.

    In Central Jail Sahiwal, a death row convict Muhammad Tahir was executed for killing his pregnant wife.

    The accused had gunned down his pregnant wife Asma over domestic row on June 23, 2007 in Shamsabad, Sheikhupura.

    The Sheikhupura “A” Division Police arrested him after registering of a case. He was awarded death sentence by Additional District and Session Court Sheikhupura on June, 30, 2008. The High Court had rejected his appeal against his conviction on March 8, 2013 while the Supreme Court upheld the decision on May, 31, 2017. His mercy appeal was rejected by the President on August 24, 2017.

    In Jhang, a convicted murderer Nasir Abbas was sent to the gallows here at District Jail Jhang early Thursday morning.

    Nasir Abbas was convicted of killing one Hafeezur Rahman in 2001.

    http://nation.com.pk/17-Nov-2017/two-murderers-hanged

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    4,993 convicts including 40 women awaiting execution in Pakistani jails

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    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The number of death row prisoners (convicts) across Pakistan has increased as according to a latest report, 4,993 prisoners including 40 women are awaiting execution in various jails across the Country.

    Sources said that 4,193 prisoners are languishing in various jails across the Punjab province on death row for committing heinous crimes.

    Likewise they added that 524 inmates are imprisoned in Sindh jails facing death sentence while there are 204 death row prisoners in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa jail and 72 in Balochistan jails.

    Sources further said that a total of 1,117 foreigners are also imprisoned in Pakistani jails for various crimes.

    However, according to Justice Project Pakistan (JPP); a Lahore-based non-profit human rights law firm working for prisoners’ rights; the number of people on death row in Pakistan is as high as 8,200.

    It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan had imposed a moratorium on executions in 2008 but following Peshawar’s army public school attack occurred on December 16, 2014, the ban was lifted for terrorism-related cases.

    Since December 2014 till now, according to JPP, as many as 485 prisoners have been hanged to death in Pakistan with Punjab as the major executioner, ranking the Country as the ‘5th most prolific executioner’ in the World following China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

    https://dnd.com.pk/4993-inmates-incl...i-jails/136859

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    Prisoners’ request for painless execution denied

    By Hidayat Khan
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    PESHAWAR: A court has turned down attempts by two death row prisoners who wanted the way death sentences are carried out to be changed.

    A two-judge bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising Justice Roohul Amin and Justice Qalandar Ali Khan on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by two death row prisoners who have challenged the penalty of “hanging till death” and instead asked for a ‘less painful’ mode of execution in accordance with modern scientific developments.

    The petitioners, Jan Bahadur and Gul Wali, on death row at the Haripur prison for the past 20 years, had challenged hangings.

    “Hanging to death is unIslamic and unconstitutional,” Khurshid Khan, the lawyer for the petitioners, told the court. He insisted that it was painful and against human values.

    “If you are punishing them according to the English law, why do you not execute them through a modern mode?” he asked, noting that the prisoners preferred to have their sentence carried out through a lethal injection instead of being hanged by their necks.

    Bahadur had been sentenced to death by an additional district and sessions judge in Takht Bhai on April 7, 2000, for a 1993 murder. After he challenged the mode of execution in July 2017, a stay was grated on the execution of his sentence.

    Wali has been on the death row at the Haripur jail for past 22 years and recently submitted a similar application.

    “We are not against the executions, but against the mode of execution in Pakistan, which is a cruel one,” Khurshid argued. He added that before the arrival of the British in united India, there was no concept of hanging to death.

    He further argued that Article 2 of the constitution provides that no law in the country will be made against Islam.

    “As hanging by neck till death is not in accordance with Islamic teachings, therefore it is requested to amend section 368,” the petitioners contended. Section 368 of the Pakistan Criminal Procedure Code provides that when “any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead.”

    Khurshid further argued that the court should seek the viewed of the Council of Islamic Ideology.

    The two-judge bench, though, dismissed the petitions, on the basis that the matter did not fall within the high court’s jurisdiction, rather, it should be taken up with the Federal Shariat Court instead to decide whether or not any law is repugnant to the injunctions of Islam.

    “There is no subordination in judicial matters,” justice Qalander said.

    “If a judgment is upheld by the Supreme Court, then there is no jurisdiction of the High Court. Hanging to death is maintained by the Supreme Court,” he maintained.

    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1606364...cution-denied/

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    2 condemned prisoners executed in Haripur jail

    2 condemned prisoners were executed at Haripur Central Jail amid tight security in the wee hours on Tuesday, prison officials said.

    One of the prisoners, Amanullah, was convicted of killing a woman lawyer and social activist, Naseema Bibi, on the premises of Dera Ismail Khan district courts. The other condemned prisoner, Jan Bahadur, had killed a person in Oct 1993 in Mardan district.

    After exhausting all the forums of appeals the 2 convicts were allowed final meetings with their families on Sunday and Monday.

    The bodies were later handed over to their families after completion of the due process.

    On April 23, 2008, an additional district and sessions judge had convicted Amanullah in Peshawar. The Peshawar High Court and the Supreme Court had rejected his appeals against death penalty on May 4, 2010 and Nov 10, 2010, respectively.

    Subsequently, his mercy petition was also rejected by the president of Pakistan.

    Amanullah was taken into custody shortly after the murder. He later confessed to the crime in front of the trial court.

    The convict had insisted the deceased was his wife but she was reluctant to declare that publicly and therefore, he killed her.

    However, the claim was refuted by the deceased during her lifetime.

    She had alleged that Amanullah was a blackmailer, who had been trying to grab her property.

    The deceased had also filed cases of forgery and fraud against him in local courts besides challenging her 'fake' nikahnama which, she claimed, was prepared by Amanullah.

    The Dera bar association had decided that none of its members would represent the suspect in the courts.

    For the reason, the trial of the case was shifted to Peshawar on the high court's orders.

    The 2nd convict Jan Bahadur was arrested in connection with a murder case registered at Takhtbhai police station, Mardan, on Oct 22, 1993.

    He was sentenced to death by an additional district and sessions judge on April 7, 2000, at Takhtbhai. The judgment was upheld by the high court On March 12, 2002, and subsequently, the Supreme Court also upheld the verdict. His review and clemency petitions were also rejected.

    He had also filed a writ petition in the Peshawar High Court recently requesting that his death penalty may be carried out through a less painful mode and not by hanging. A few days ago, the court had rejected his petition observing that the petitioner should have moved the Federal Shariat Court and not the high court.

    (Source: dawn.com)
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    Public hanging of child rapists & murderers considered as Pakistan mourns 7yo victim

    A Pakistani Senate committee has proposed to publicly hang those who sexually abuse or murder children. The measure is a response to the gruesome case of a Pakistani 7-year-old girl who was raped and killed earlier in January.

    Part of the Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) on the punishment of child rapists and murderers currently states: "Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person under the age of 14 in order that such person may be murdered or subjected to grievous hurt... shall be punished with death (sic)." Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik is now seeking to add the phrase "by hanging publicly" after the word "death."

    The amendment has been proposed just 1 day after Pakistani authorities arrested a key suspect behind the murder of 7-year-old Zainab Ansari. The girl was abducted and later found raped and murdered near the eastern city of Lahore earlier in January. The case prompted mass protests and shockwaves across the country, with demonstrators accusing the government of inaction.

    On Tuesday, police detained a 24-year-old man whose DNA matched samples found on the girl's body, according to Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab province. The suspect has been identified as Imran Ali, and was a neighbor of Zainab.

    He later confessed to having killed at least 8 girls including Zainab. The confession was recorded in a video released by local media. "I want Imran Ali to be hanged publicly... I will request the political parties to support my wish," Sharif later said.

    Over 1,700 children were abused in Pakistan in the 1st 6 months of 2017, according to the data from the Islamabad-based Sahil group, which works on child protection, local media said. In 2016, the total number of reported child abuse cases was over 4,000, meaning that an average of 11 children were abused in Pakistan every day.

    Yet there are those who oppose the drastic measure. "[The] Zainab incident is unfortunate but the demand for public hanging is also not correct," Senator Hasil Bizenjo said. According to Senator Farhatullah Babar, if the law is amended, there'll be "calls for hanging everyone."

    In the meantime, a petition on change.org calling to hang Zainab's killer has gathered over 320,000 signatures. "The rapists of innocent Zainab should be hanged publicly in front of a large crowd so that other potential rapists learn a lesson," the petition said.

    The petition, however, was closed, failing to gain 500,000 signatures.

    (Source: rt.com)
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    Abduction of a minor: Bill for public hanging sent to CII for review

    The government on Monday referred the bill seeking public hanging for a person accused of kidnapping a person below the age of 14 to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).

    The bill entitled the "Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018" seeks an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code Act's Section 364-A on the kidnapping or abduction of a person under the age of 14.

    CII Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz told The Express Tribune a meeting of the CII members is scheduled for February 8 in which the item has been placed on top of the agenda.

    "After thorough deliberation with all the CII members, belonging to various schools of thought, the CII will give its view on public execution," said the chairman.

    FIA arrests suspected child pornographer

    The move to bring public execution under law came after Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, during a press conference held soon after the arrest of Zainab's murderer, announced public execution as a punishment for the culprit who brutally raped and murdered 7-year-old Zainab in Kasur earlier this month.

    After the incident, people from all walks of life called for a public execution, especially on social media. They demanded that the government publicly execute such people who brutally rape and murder children. They were of the view that this kind of punishment will discourage such inhumane acts.

    Following the calls, Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik proposed an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to 'publicly hang' convicts found guilty of kidnapping, murdering or raping children under 14 years of age on January 22.

    It has been proposed to add words 'by hanging publicly' at the end after the punishment, instead of death or imprisonment for life.

    On the other hand, Chairman National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) Justice (retd) Ali Nawaz Chohan said, "NCHR is of the view that this particular private bill if passed will violate Article 6 & 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 15 of the Convention against Torture and Pakistan's commitment to review the law carrying death penalty in accordance with ratified international conventions as indicated in the recent Universal Periodic Review -2017.":

    He further said that the bill will also weaken the national interest of Pakistan under GSP+, as the EU commission in its second biannual GSP+ report has raised serious concern over the use of the death penalty. It has urged the government to review the law to reduce the number of crimes carrying death penalty in Pakistan.

    The NCHR chairman believes that the proposed method of execution is cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment and punishment and is also a violation of General Comment No20 of the UN Human Rights Committee.

    "The purpose stated in the bill is that 'fear of punishment could prevent others from committing similar crime'. But preventing future offenses isn't the only concern. Therefore the Commission believes in reformation as the world has deterrence to reformation," he said.

    He concluded that the tragic events surrounding Zainab's death pushed the country to work for a better state of affairs for the country's children.

    "It's high time that we prioritise the protection of our children in all legal and policy agendas while implementing the already existing child safeguarding mechanism," he concluded.

    (Source: The Express Tribune)
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