UN urges Pakistan to ‘incorporate into its legislation a specific definition of torture to be applied without exceptionA UN committee has condemned the “widespread practice of torture” in Pakistan by police,the military and intelligence agencies in a report published on Friday, and called on Islamabad to implement urgent reforms to the law.
“The police engage in the widespread practice of torture throughout the territory ... with a view to obtaining confessions from persons in custody, and ” the UN Committee against Torture wrote in its first report on the situation in the country,made public after months of investigation. Related: Boy, 10, and killed in attempted blasphemy lynching in Pakistan Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com