Senate criminalises torture, custodial deaths
AI welcomes bill as ‘encouraging step towards longstanding campaign to criminalise torture’
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ISLAMABAD:
The Senate on Monday passed the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Bill, 2021 – nearly a month after the opposition rang alarms over “covert omission” of human rights bills from parliamentary agendas.
The bill was tabled by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Sherry Rehman in February last year and was backed by Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari.
The bill stipulates that any public servant found involved in torture would face up to 10-year imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs2 million and for custodial death and sexual violence, a fine of Rs3 million along with a life imprisonment sentence.
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