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Further information on UA164/12 – PAKISTAN - HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER STILL AT RISK
Leading human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir remains at risk despite the provision of security provided by Pakistan authorities, following an Urgent Action issued by Amnesty International. The authorities appear unable or unwilling to investigate Asma Jahangir claims that Pakistan’s security forces were behind the plot. Deaths of human rights ...
Further information on UA 59/11 PAKISTAN - POLITICAL ACTIVIST FOUND DEAD IN PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN Muzaffar Bhutto, a senior member of a Sindhi nationalist political party in Pakistan, was found dead on 22 May after being allegedly abducted by plain-clothed intelligence agents and police on 25 February 2011. Amnesty International calls for the killing to be investigated and the perpetrators to be ...
UA 164/12 PAKISTAN - DEATH PLOT AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER
PAKISTAN Leading human rights lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir fears for her life, having just learned of a plot by Pakistan’s security forces to kill her. Killings of human rights defenders have increased over the last year, many of which implicate Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency (ISI). On ...
Further information on UA 139/12 – PAKISTAN - POLITICIANS GIVEN PROTECTION BUT MORE NEEDED
PAKISTAN Following an Urgent Action issued by Amnesty International on 11 May, additional security has been ordered for regional parliamentarians Saleem Khursheed Khokhar and Pitamber Sewani. They had been receiving threats for campaigning against forced conversions and marriages from the Hindu minority community in Sindh province, Pakistan. Hindu ...
UA 143/12 – PAKISTAN - EXECUTIONS SET TO RESUME IN PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN The execution of Behram Khan by hanging has been scheduled for 30 June. It would be the first execution in Pakistan in almost four years and could pave the way for authorities to carry out more death sentences. Only the President of Pakistan can permanently halt his ...
UA 139/12 – PAKISTAN - POLITICIAN THREATENED, AS DEFENDS MINORITIES
PAKISTAN Regional parliamentarian Saleem Khursheed Khokhar has received death threats over his calls for Hindu women and girls to be protected from abduction and forced conversion to Islam. Saleem Khursheed Khokhar, a Christian, is a member of Pakistan's Sindh Provincial Assembly and President of the Sindh chapter ...
UA 41/12 PAKISTAN - MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
PAKISTAN A Pakistani man, Muhammad Ishaq, who lives in New York State, USA, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. A district court in Punjab province upheld Muhammad Ishaq's death sentence, which had been handed down to him in July 2009 by ...
Further information on UA 270/11 PAKISTAN - ABDUCTED PAKISTANI JOURNALIST RELEASED
PAKISTAN Pakistani journalist Rehmatullah Darpakhel, who was abducted on 11 August 2011, was released on 12 October and is now recovering with his family. On the afternoon of 11 August 2011, journalist Rehmatullah Darpakhel was abducted by unknown men as he shopped for groceries in his home ...
UA: 270/11 PAKISTAN - ABDUCTED PAKISTANI JOURNALIST IN DANGER
PAKISTAN Pakistani journalist Rehmatullah Darpakhel was abducted a month ago by unknown armed men in insurgency-hit North Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan. There has been no news about his fate and whereabouts since. Amnesty International fears that he may be at grave risk of torture and death. Over a month has ...
UA 237/11 PAKISTAN - DETAINED BALOCH MEN RISK DEATH
PAKISTAN The body of a Baloch student activist was found on 16 July, five months after he was taken into custody by the paramilitary Frontier Corps. Ten other Baloch men, detained at the same time, are in grave danger of the same fate. The 10 were taken ...
Further information on UA 162/11 PAKISTAN - ABDUCTED STUDENTS FOUND IN DETENTION
PAKISTAN Pakistani brothers Abdullah and Ibrahim Mohamed El-Sharkawi have now been found in detention, after allegedly being abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies in Pakistan on 25 and 29 May respectively. Ibrahim was released on bail on 27 June; Abdullah was located on 23 July. Ibrahim Mohamed El-Sharkawi, ...
