Earlier in April this year, Pakistan mourned the death of its father of human rights, as Human Rights Watch called him — the legendary I. A Rehman. A teacher and mentor to his younger friends and comrades, he was a fighter for all victims of human rights abuses — even his ideological rivals. Perhaps not […]
Six year ago today, a member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and a human rights lawyer Rashid Rehman was mercilessly killed at his office in Multan for defending a blasphemy accused professor Junaid Hafeez. Rashid Rehman who was also HRCP’S coordinator for the Punjab office, had been facing threats for pleading the case […]
69SharesFollowing the awarding of death sentence to academic Junaid Hafeez, his family and lawyers have released a statement saying that lawyers operating as mafias influenced the verdict. In the statement, they have called the decision an unfortunate verdict which had less to do with the legal merits of the case and more to do with […]