Aftab Bahadur Masih hanged in Lahore

[Solomon2]

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Aftab Bahadur Masih hanged in Lahore
By Reuters / Rana Tanveer
Published: June 10, 2015

A file photo of Aftab Bahadur Masih. PHOTO: IB TIMES

LAHORE: Aftab Bahadur Masih was executed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail early Wednesday morning despite requests from rights groups and church leaders to halt the execution, terming his conviction as flawed.

Masih’s lawyers said he was tortured into confessing to murder, in a case that has prompted concern among rights groups and the United Nations.

Aftab Bahadur was sentenced to death for killing three people in 1992 and human rights group Reprieve said two witnesses who said Bahadur was implicated under torture.

At the time, the death penalty could be passed on a 15 year old, but the minimum age was raised to 18 in 2000.

Testimony obtained by torture is also inadmissible.

“Aftab Bahadur was hanged at District Jail Lahore on Wednesday at 4.30 am,” a jail official told on the condition of anonymity as he was not allowed to speak to the media on the issue.

“Before the hanging, he was crying and saying he was innocent.”

The date of birth on Bahadur’s birth certificate and national identity card, June 30, 1977, is not disputed by Pakistani police or the courts.

“Pakistan proceeded with Mr Bahadur’s execution despite his having been sentenced to death when he was a child – in violation of both international and Pakistani law,” Reprieve said.

Aftab insisted he was innocent and said that when he was arrested, the police had asked for a Rs50,000 bribe and said they would let him go if he paid. As a plumber’s apprentice, Aftab said he could not pay.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium on the death penalty last year, a day after Pakistani Taliban gunmen attacked a school and killed 134 pupils and 19 adults. The killings put pressure on the government to do more to tackle the militant insurgency.

In an essay written from jail and published a day before his hanging, Bahadur, a Christian, repeated his assertion that he was innocent.

“But I do not know whether that will make any difference,” he wrote. “I have not given up hope, though the night is very dark … It would perhaps have been better not to have to think of what the police did to try to get me to confess falsely to this crime.”

In another incident, also at Kot Lakhpat Jail, a murder convict was hanged.

A duty officer at the jail confirmed to media that Tariq, alias, Tara was also executed for the murder of a man named Zahid.

 

[coffee_cup]

F***ing right groups!

Blind to the obvious ethnic cleansing and genocide happening right before their eyes in Mynamar and not a single condemnation in the UN. And here one convict is hanged and they all go banana.

Political tools only, ignore these §$%§$% !!!!

PS. Ok, again one of the evil triad (Tribune) has taken up the issue this time. The other two (Dawn, and Geo) will have their turns on something else.

 

[Kompromat]

As you sow so shall you reap. Next turn is Shafqat's.

 

[farhan_9909]

QISAS

 

[Solomon2]

F***ing right groups! Blind to the obvious ethnic cleansing and genocide happening right before their eyes in Mynamar and not a single condemnation in the UN. And here one convict is hanged and they all go banana.

If you're a Pakistani is your obligation to your fellow citizengreater than your obligation to foreigners residing far away? You can fight for your fellow citizen under the law in Pakistan and you can't do that in Myanmar, right?

PS. Ok, again one of the evil triad (Tribune) has taken up the issue this time. The other two (Dawn, and Geo) will have their turns on something else.

Are you fighting for human rights or the right to commit wrongs against humans?

 

[TankMan]

This 'Reprieve' group seems hell-bent on rescuing every murderer in Pakistan. They lied that Shafqat was fourteen years old when he clearly was not. They milked that story for months until some journalists rebutted their lies. What credibility do they have now? Same story, ''confession was obtained under torture''. Bull.

If they can say that the guy in the picture below is fourteen years old, they can lie about anything. They have no credibility. Obstruction of justice and manipulation under the guise of ''human rights'', nothing more.

“Before the hanging, he was crying and saying he was innocent.”

Most murderers say they are innocent before execution. That's human nature. That means nothing.

 

[rockstar08]

every Criminal will face the LAW .... justice is served

 

[Solomon2]

This 'Reprieve' group seems hell-bent on rescuing every murderer in Pakistan. They lied that Shafqat was fourteen years old when he clearly was not. They milked that story for months until some journalists rebutted their lies. What credibility do they have now? Same story, ''confession was obtained under torture''. Bull.

So Masih has to die because his defenders don't have credibility? That's crazy.

 

[Zarvan]

So Masih has to die because his defenders don't have credibility? That's crazy.

He had to die because he murdered a innocent

 

[TankMan]

So Masih has to die because his defenders don't have credibility? That's crazy.

He has to die because he is a murderer and his defenders don't have enough credibility to disprove those testifying against him.

He had to die because he murdered a innocent

He murdered three innocents.

 

[Jazzbot]

Good riddance. Next in line are Shafaqat hussain and Mumtaz Qadri..

 

[IceCold]

Hang the bastards every last one of them. Let Allah be the judge of their deeds but we have suffered alot because of this sponsored terrorism in Pakistan one way or the other. its time Mullah Fazalullah is apprehended and than his execution should be made public.

 

[alibaz]

Good riddance. Next in line are Shafaqat hussain and Mumtaz Qadri..

Yep all those who have taken or ordered life of fellow human beings without any reason and authority must meet their fate

 

[syedali73]

Good riddance. Next in line are Shafaqat hussain and Mumtaz Qadri..

I wish if Shafqat's apologists such as Hamid Mir (Jaffer) and Sara Bilal also get hanged together with him or some other Shafqat Hussein kills Hamid's or Sara's children, then I will see how they'll save him from justice.

Please go through the following program 19:55 onwards.

 

[karakoram]

150 plus people also hanged but why making noise on this massih. Who ever kill a innocent should face the death panelty