Hanging of Abdul Basit,who was convicted of murder, will make Islamabad one of the world’s worst executioners, and says AmnestyPakistan plans to execute a disabled man this week,as Amnesty International said the country was nearing 300 hangings in less than a year.
The execution of Abdul Basit, a paraplegic man who was convicted of murder in 2009, and has been postponed several times after rights groups raised concerns approximately how a man in a wheelchair would mount the scaffold. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com