Pakistan

Human Rights in ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

Legacy of Musharraf abuses lingers on in Pakistan | Amnesty ...
3 November 2008

Pakistan is still suffering from the abusive policies put in place oneyear ago Monday, when General Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared astate of emergency.

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Pakistan: Death Penalty: Zulfiqar Ali (m)
31 October 2008

Zulfiqar Ali was scheduled to be executed on 22 October 2008, but his sentence was not carried out, for reasons not known to Amnesty International. He could be ...

Urgent Action       ASA 33/025/2008

Pakistan: One year after emergency, legacy of abuses lingers on ...
31 October 2008

A year after General Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, the country is still suffering from the abusive policies he put in place ...

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Pakistan/Afghanistan: Thousands of displaced civilians in border ...
3 October 2008

Tens of thousands of civilians require immediate international humanitarian assistance as a result of escalating fighting on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan ...

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New Pakistani president must improve human rights | Amnesty ...
10 September 2008

With the swearing in of Musharraf's successor, Asif Ali Zardari, thePakistani government should act immediately to reverse the country'shuman rights record.

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Pakistan: New president should reverse legacy of human rights ...
8 September 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 8 September 2008. AI Index No: ASA 33/024/2008. Pakistan: New president should reverse legacy of human rights abuses. ...

Document       ASA 33/024/2008

Video: Protest launches tour against enforced disappearance in ...
3 September 2008

Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal thefate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amidinternational protests to mark ...

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Musharraf is gone, but still no sign of the disappeared | Amnesty ...
2 September 2008

Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, calls onPakistan's new government to publish details on those held in secretdetention and shed light on ...

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Protest launches tour against enforced disappearance in Pakistan ...
2 September 2008

On the 25th International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International and Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, called upon the Pakistan government ...

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Pakistan: Act now for Atiq-Ur Rehman
1 August 2008

Atiq-ur Rehman, a 29-year-old scientist and officer of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission, was apprehended in Abbotabad, North West Frontier Province on 25 June ...

Document       ASA 33/021/2008