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. As a result another execution warrant might be issued imminently.
October 21, 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. As a result another execution warrant might be issued imminently.
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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