Tag: Executions

Authorities plan to execute 500 terror convicts, officials say

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in...

Sindh High Court suspends death warrants of two terror convicts

SUKKUR- Sindh High Court on Monday suspended the death warrants issued for two terror convicts jailed in Sukkur, private media reported. The convicts were to be...

LHC stays execution of five prisoners condemned to death by military...

RAWALPINDI- Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday stayed the execution of five prisoners condemned to death by a military court for army camp attack in...

Four convicts in Musharraf attack case executed in Faisalabad

Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Russian citizen Akhlaque Ahmed alias Roosi hanged at Faisalabad District Jail amid heightened security measures in...

Rights groups slam Pakistan for resuming executions

HRW says ‘Pakistan's govt has chosen to indulge in vengeful blood-lust instead of finding and prosecuting those responsible for the horrific Peshawar attack’ Rights groups...

HRCP urges Punjab government to continue moratorium on executions

 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Punjab government to continue with the four-year suspension of execution of death row...

Stop executions, HRW tells Karzai

A US-bed international human rights organisation on Wednesday asked the Afghan government to end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on...

Executions down in 2010, rights group says

LONDON - At least 527 people were executed around the world last year, down from 714 in 2009, although China is believed to have put to death thousands more, human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
It said Beijing was thought to have executed far more people than the rest of the world combined. Amnesty's tally does not include figures for China, which describes them as state secrets, the rights group said. At least 23 countries carried out judicial executions in