The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) recently conducted a comprehensive visit to Central Jail in Rawalpindi (Adiala) in response to reports alleging torture and inhumane treatment of detained political workers.
She belongs to that rare minuscule group of people who work for the forgotten of Pakistan: the unfairly jailed, the mentally ill locked up for life or until death, the shoddily tried sentenced-to-death. Her work is difficult; filled with obstacles social, legal, and bureaucratic. It is mostly silent, inaudibly appreciated. Families of the people she helps are indebted to her for life. The ones whose lives she saves, those whose rights she fights for do not post fawning odes. They are the viceless, faceless Pakistanis whose fate is as bleak as the cells in which they are locked up to die unheard, alone. She does not forget them for a moment.
Ministry’s report sought in case of Pak prisoners in Iran
Lahore
March 3, 2021
LAHORE:The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to submit a detailed report on the efforts made to provide consular assistance to Pakistanis imprisoned in Iran in order to secure their repatriation.
Earlier, representing a public interest petition, Barrister Sarah Belal said the state was responsible to represent the imprisoned citizens forcefully as required by law to expedite their repatriation and ensure consular assistance at all stages of their imprisonment. She said the efforts of the ministry’s Iran Desk and holding consistent meetings with their counterparts in Tehran to bring back prisoners were laudable but a consular policy was still pending.