SOUTH ASIA: The police as the spoiler of criminal investigations
Article : The following is a comment from a reader to an AHRC Urgent Appeal on the issue of dowry deaths in India. We reproduce this short comment by the reader because it represents the general perception about the police in all South Asian countries in their role in criminal investigations: "Police in maximum measure finds the wrong person because some unavoidable circumstance had made them bound to forget the proper code of investigation... Read More...
PAKISTAN: Human rights defenders were tortured during jail custody in Gilgit-Baltistan
Urgent Appeal Case : We have received information that the human rights defenders, Mr. Baba Jan Hunzai along with four companions was brutally tortured by the police and military intelligence, ISI, officials while in custody of the jail. The victims were not given access to any medical treatment facilities despite being severely tortured. The government has not taken any initiative to investigate the brutal torture of the prisoners detained in jail. It is alleged that a superintendent of police, a deputy superintendent of police, a station house officer (SHO) and the deputy superintendent of Gilgit district jail were directly helping and instigating the torture with the military intelligence people. The torture victims are kept in a sub section of the jail which is at the top of a mountain where the temperature remains almost at freezing point. Read More...
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