Tag: death sentence
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Woman sentenced to death for online blasphemy under PECA laws
A Christian woman was sentenced to death on Thursday for committing online blasphemy under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). Dawn reports that the woman is a mother of four. She had previously sought bail from both the trial court and the Islamabad High Court (IHC), but her bail applications got rejected by both.…
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Rape convict’s death penalty converted to life imprisonment by LHC
Lahore High Court (LHC) has on Tuesday changed the death sentence of a man convicted of raping an 11-month-old to life imprisonment. The decision was made in light of a negative DNA report and the age of the convict at the time of the incident. Justice Aalia Neelum headed the two-judge bench hearing the case,…
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Almost two years to Noor’s murder, Zahir Jaffer challenges death sentence
Zahir Jaffer has lodged an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the death sentence he was given for murdering Noor Mukadam in 2021 in Islamabad. Jaffer has argued that the trial and the Islamabad High Court (IHC) failed to recognize the fundamental deficiencies in the First Information Report (FIR) and that their judgments were based…
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Three men sentenced to death for gang raping teenager in Kasur
A gender-based violence court on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the gang-rape of a mentally challenged minor girl, reported Dawn. As per reports, the court also imposed a fine to compensate the family of the survivor. The accused abducted a 13-year-old girl from Eisanagar on Aug 21, 2019, held her at a deserted…
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Zahir Jaffer can’t be killed in a police encounter because of active Islamabad ladies: Sheikh Rasheed
Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed on Monday said that they [government] cannot have the Noor Mukadam case suspect, Zahir Jaffer, killed in a police encounter. He was addressing a press conference in Islamabad. Rasheed sarcastically said that the “active ladies in Islamabad” and “large social media” have ruled out the possibility of an extrajudicial killing. The…
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‘Inhumane’: SC says ‘mentally-ill’ death row prisoners cannot be executed
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday commuted the death sentences of three “mentally-ill” prisoners to life imprisonment, saying executing a person who doesn’t understand the rationale behind their punishment is “inhumane” and doesn’t meet the ends of justice. The apex court announced this verdict on a point whether or not mentally ill death-row prisoners…
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Singaporean court hands out death sentence through video-link
A Singaporean court has handed via video-link the death sentence to a Malaysian man, Punithan Genasan, who was found guilty of being involved in drug trafficking. He facilitated the trafficking of 28.5 kilograms of heroin back in 2011, which has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use. He was then extradited in 2016, later he…
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VIDEO: Masked men on unregistered vehicle seek dismissal of judges who sentenced Musharraf
At least two masked men on an unregistered vehicle have been spotted in Sialkot, putting up banners seeking dismissal of judges who convicted former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf last week. A special court trying the ex-preisdent had last week sentenced him to death for treason. While analysts had hinted at a possible rift…
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Musharraf’s exit: ‘PML-N was powerless after Raheel Sharif’s recommendation’
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said that former military ruler General (r) Pervez Musharraf, who was recently sentenced to death in abstentia for treason, “was allowed to go abroad for medical treatment on the recommendation of then army chief Raheel Sharif”, and the government stood “powerless”. “We [the PML-N government] didn’t have…
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‘No lenient view permitted’: BZU teacher sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’
A former university lecturer in Multan, who was booked on blasphemy charges and arrested by police on March 13, 2013, was on Saturday sentenced to death by a district and sessions court, Dawn reported. Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Department of English Literature of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Junaid Hafeez, according to Amnesty…