close
Thursday April 25, 2024
Zainab Malik
Zainab Malik

The writer is a human rights lawyer

  • October 10, 2017

    The penalty of death

    Muhammad Azam has spent more years in a death row cell in Karachi than he has outside prison. Jail records trace his journey into a broken criminal...

  • June 26, 2017

    Victims of torture

    On June 26, the UN will observe its annual International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in order to remember and support the victims and...

  • May 23, 2017

    Combating torture

    In February 2016, Pakistan articulated a renewed resolve to honour its obligations under international law. To that end, the state notified the...

  • April 08, 2017

    Torture and trial

    “I doubt there is anything more dreadful than being told that you’re going to die and then, sitting in a prison cell, just waiting for...