Human Rights in South Asia

Pakistan

India

Afghanistan

Debates and Issues

P a k i s t a n

• AI REPORT 1997: PAKISTAN
• New anti-terrorist legislation
• Where Children Shoulder The Burden Of Education
• CORRUPTION Rewards offered to tempt 'accountability' tipsters
• Journalists harassed for exposing abuses
• The death penalty in Pakistan
• Does Pakistan have Child Labor problem ?
• Salamat Masih and Rehmat Masih charged with the death penalty
• Salamat Masih and Rehmat Masih are acquitted
• THE PATTERN PERSISTS
• Executions under the Qisas and Diyat Ordinance

I n d i a

• AI REPORT 1997: INDIA
• INDIA: BLINDING OF SEVEN DETAINEES POINTS TO URGENT NEED TO ERADICATE TORTURE
• Leading artist charged with obscenity
• Summary of human rights concerns in Jammu and Kashmir
• India's response to AI's report on torture and deaths in custody in Jammu and Kashmir
• Punjab police - beyond the bounds of the law
• Harjit Singh - A case study of "disappearance" and impunity

A f g h a n i s t a n

• AI REPORT 1997: AFGHANISTAN
• IGOs ignore plight of five Afghan prisoners of conscience after release of two Frenchmen
  

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