Thursday, October 27, 2016

More Action Needed! - Man With Mental Disability To Be Executed On 2 November (Pakistan: UA 222/16)


Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected on 20 October his latest appeal to halt the execution on the ground that he has paranoid schizophrenia. According to the Supreme Court order, he is due to be executed at dawn on 2 November.




October 27, 2016


 


Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected on 20 October his latest appeal to halt the execution on the ground that he has paranoid schizophrenia. According to the Supreme Court order, he is due to be executed at dawn on 2 November.


 


Imdad Ali was arrested for the murder of a religious teacher in 2001 and convicted in 2002 under 302(b) of the Pakistan Penal Code.


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