Tag: Death sentence

West Bengal court awards death sentence to 3 LeT terrorists

Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including two Pakistani nationals, were sentenced to death by the Bongaon Court in West Bengal on Saturday. The militants were sentenced to death on charges of carrying ammunitions and trying to cross over illegally to India. The convicts are Mohammed Yunus, Mohammed Abdullah and Mohammed Muzaffar Ahmed and they were arrested...

January 21, 2017

West Bengal court awards death sentence to 3 LeT terrorists

Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including two Pakistani nationals, were sentenced to death by the Bongaon Court in West Bengal on Saturday. The militants were sentenced to death on charges of carrying ammunitions and trying to cross over illegally to India. The convicts are Mohammed Yunus, Mohammed Abdullah and Mohammed Muzaffar Ahmed and they were arrested...

January 21, 2017

Pakistan’s death lottery

Restoration of executions two years ago after a six-year moratorium is perhaps one of the most significant reversals of human rights progress in Pakistan’s recent history. As the rest of the world is rapidly moving towards abolition of the death penalty, with at least 150 states now abolitionist in law or practice, Pakistan is fast...

December 22, 2016