Islamabad, July 21 (IANS) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday called on the Pakistani government to strengthen the country’s legal framework against torture and custodial abuse, warning that abuses remain “endemic” in the country’s criminal justice system and are routinely inflicted in lockups, prisons, and interrogation rooms.On behalf of Pakistani citizens, the HRCP urged the authorities to amend Pakistan’s Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Act…
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Dhaka, June 20 (IANS) Bangladesh’s prisons have increasingly deteriorated into a deeply discriminatory state mechanism. Within this system, imprisonment for those with wealth and power translates into a “life of pampered luxury” while for ordinary, poor citizens, it amounts to a “living hell”. Although institutional operations across the country’s 72 prisons are carried out under the humane and reformist slogan ‘not a jail, but a correction centre’, the reality on the ground tells a diff…
Bhopal, Jan 28 (IANS) A controversy emerged over factual errors on an annual official diary of the Madhya Pradesh government published for the year 2026 as the Congress claimed that the names of officials who have retired from the services, still mentioned in the diary. Congress Spokesperson Vivek Tripathi claimed that upon reviewing the official diary published for the year 2026, several factual errors have been noticed, including the names of the heads of at least eight important government de…
Dhaka, Dec 28 (IANS) Six convicted militants who escaped from prison during the July-August 2024 upheaval remain at large while 18 firearms looted from damaged prisons have not been found yet. At the same time, nearly 200 inmates held on charges related to militancy have been released on bail during the past eight months, with no latest information about their whereabouts, a report said, citing official sources. A report in Times of Bangladesh stated, “These developments have raised renewed conc…