Tag: Torture

Station House Officer (SHO) of Girjakah Police Station was suspended and two policemen were arrested after suspension for their alleged involvement in brutal torture...

A nine-year-old student of a local madressa was hospitalised in an unconscious state after being severely tortured by his in-charge teacher in the...

The torture in state custody is on the rise in different shapes in Pakistan including extra-judicial killings and disappearances violating the local and internationally...

Around 400 workers of Star Laboratories on Tuesday staged a protest against the factory administration for allegedly ordering torture of four workers by factory...

The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Monday condemned the harassment of Medical Officer Dr Ijaz by Lodhran Station House Officer (SHO) Rao Luqman, who...

The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Monday condemned the harassment of Medical Officer Dr Ijaz by Lodhran Station House Officer (SHO) Rao Luqman, who...

Torture and ill treatment of women in police stations has become a routine and more than 70 per cent of the women detained at...

Johar Town police on Friday subjected a cameraman of a local news channel to torture on recording a scene of police torture of a...

The Daska City Police registered a case against 13 policemen, including Inspector Irfan Sulehria and Sub Inspector Nadeem Ashraf, for kidnapping, humiliating and brutally...

Additional District and Sessions Judge Musharaf Hassan has directed the Kot Lakhpat station house officer (SHO) to record the statement of Dr Fahim Raza,...

A central figure in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the debate over harsh interrogation methods was held in secret CIA detention, then...

Morocco's youth movement calling for political reforms announced Wednesday it would stage a protest "picnic" on May 15 near a secret detention centre where...

Dozens of Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) activists tortured Punjab University (PU)’s sweepers for not allowing them to display their pamphlets on walls on...

LAHORE - Sanda police have yet not registered a case against some policemen from the Sherankot Police Station for trespassing on a factory, torturing the factory's owner and robbing him of valuables and cash. The policemen from the Sanda Police accepted the complaint from the victim after 30 hours of the mishap.
Mian Shabbir, a resident of Abu-Bakar Colony in Sanda police precincts, told Pakistan Today that he was in his office inside his factory Thursday noon when six or seven

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aasma Jahangir condemned the police's torture of Punjab Tenants' Association, young doctors and lady health workers and their arrests. In a statement issued on Thursday, she said that the police 'highhandedness' on the protestors exposed the slogan of good governance in Punjab. She said holding a protest was a basic human right and people could not take to roads when their rights were not protected.
She said that in a

LONDON - The British government has ordered all its diplomats to report any suspicion they may have about the UK terror suspects being tortured abroad.
The move comes in the wake of former President Pervez Musharraf interview last week that Britain gave Pakistan tacit approval of its interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
A British office source told Pakistan Today that Foreign Secretary William Hague warned all UK diplomats working overseas that they would personally

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf claimed in comments released on Monday that Britain never clearly demanded that British citizens not be tortured by Pakistani security services. As Britain prepares to open an inquiry into claims that its agents were complicit in the torture of terror suspects, Pakistan's former military ruler said London's stance may have been a "tacit approval of whatever we were doing".
In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),