PAKISTAN: Torture is endemic in the country
A Special Report on the Occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims - June 26, 2010. Amid the demonstration of the most cruel form of torture by the police, armed forces, the intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces during the last year, from July 2009 to June this year, the government of Pakistan has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
AHRC-SPR-001-2010-Pakistan.pdf
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