We attach this month’s death penalty report thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it. Note that apart from a small item, China does not feature despite being the world’s largest executioner of its people. Details are a state secret.
Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
Death Penalty report: March – April
Posted: April 8, 2021 in Death penaltyTags: Armenia, China, Death penalty, India, Iran, juvenile, Myanmar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, USA
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Urgent action: Pakistan
Posted: March 31, 2021 in Death penalty, PakistanTags: blasphemy, Death penalty, Pakistan, Shafqat Emmanuel, Shagfur Kauser, urgent action
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This urgent action is on behalf of a Christian couple in Pakistan who are on death row for ‘Blasphemy’ still a crime in that country. If convicted, the death penalty is mandatory. The laws are vague and arouse considerable tensions. Allegations can be made and it is extremely difficult for the police and courts to carry out proper investigations. Angry crowds can congregate, whipped up by religious clerics and their supporters, making it extremely difficult for justice to be done. Judges are under pressure to convict or risk becoming targets themselves. Some individuals take the law into their own hands and anyone associated with the accused, including lawyers, are at risk of attack or murder.
Another problem is constant trial postponements as judges are reluctant to decide. Since defendants are denied bail, it can mean years spent in captivity. Pakistan’s Supreme Court has said that many of these accusations are false and are made for ulterior motives and to settle feuds.
This UA is on behalf of a Christian couple, Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagfur Kauser sentence to death in 2014 for allegedly sending a blasphemous text to a cleric. They have been in prison for nearly 8 years awaiting their appeal. They should not be in prison at all.
The link below gives the full details and a suggested letter which can be sent via email. Since many of our followers are in the USA (welcome!) the US embassy address to send copies is:
Embassy of Pakistan
3517 International Ct
Washington DC 20008
Or the email is: info@embassyofpakistanusa.org
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2021-03/UA02721.pdf?QEv1vD6d7Ni0TZ2dP39_R6PJEihuUAaO=
We hope you have time to write. Thank you.
Death penalty report
Posted: March 11, 2021 in Death penaltyTags: Alabama, arizona, Bahrain, Death penalty, India, Iran, montana, Oklahoma, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, USA
We attach the latest death penalty report thanks to group member Lesley for the work in assembling it.
Death penalty report May – June
Posted: June 11, 2020 in Death penaltyTags: Belarus, Chad, Death penalty, Iran, Pakistan, USA, Walter Orgrod, Yemen
The latest death penalty report is now available thanks to group member Lesley for the work in compiling it.
Death penalty report
Posted: April 9, 2020 in Death penaltyTags: Belarus, Death penalty, India, Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Texas, USA, Yemen, Zimbabwe
We are pleased to attach the death penalty report for mid March/April 2020 thanks to group member Lesley for the work in compiling it.
Monthly death penalty report
Posted: March 12, 2020 in Death penaltyTags: Alabama, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, tennessee, USA
We are pleased to attach our monthly death penalty report compiled by group member Lesley.
Report: February – March (Word)
Monthly death penalty report
Posted: February 13, 2020 in Death penaltyTags: Bahrain, Death penalty, India, Japan, Kris Maharaj, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Texas, USA
We are pleased to attach the monthly death penalty report prepared by group member Lesley. It contains news of death sentences and penalties from around the world. Note that China does not appear because although it is believed to execute more of its citizens that the rest of the world combined, the data is a state secret.
Death penalty report
Posted: January 9, 2020 in Death penaltyTags: Bahrain, Belarus, Death penalty, film, India, Japan, Pakistan, Saudi, USA
Attached is the death penalty report for December – January compiled by group member Lesley.
July – August death penalty report
Posted: August 12, 2019 in Death penaltyTags: China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Philipinnes, Priti Patel, Sri Lanka, UK, USA, Yemen
The current issue of the monthly death penalty report is now available thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it. A number of countries are featured including, as ever, the USA, and Japan which has executed several people recently.
You may want to join a small group by writing one of the urgent actions featured in this report. We have several members who do this in the privacy of their own hom
Good News!
Posted: June 12, 2019 in Death penalty, Pakistan, UncategorizedTags: blasphemy, Canada, Death penalty, Good news, Pakistan
Asia Bibi leaves Pakistan for Canada a free woman
Many people were outraged at the treatment Asia Bibi received in Pakistan and have written letters in support of her. We have today (12 June 2019) heard that she has been acquitted.
Asia Bibi is a Christian farm worker, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2010. After an eight-year ordeal, Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted her of all charges and released her in October 2018. Following the decision by the Supreme Court to uphold her acquittal on 29 January 2019, it was confirmed by the Pakistani Foreign Office on 9 May that she had left Pakistan and safely arrived in Canada to be reunited with her family.
We are extremely grateful to supporters who wrote appeals to not only acquit Asia Bibi but to also ensure her safe passage out of Pakistan. Her wrongful death sentence has also helped bring more nuance into the discourse around the blasphemy laws and their rampant misuse. Offered asylum in Canada, Asia Bibi can begin to live her life as a free woman.
We thank you, for standing with Asia Bibi during her ordeal. It’s a great relief that Asia Bibi and her family are safe. She should never have been imprisoned in the first place, let alone faced the death penalty. Omar Waraich, Deputy South Asia Director at Amnesty International.
Source: Amnesty press release
