Amnesty International urges India, Pakistan to ensure better security for

[thestringshredder]

Amnesty International urges India, Pakistan to ensure better security for prisoners.

LUCKNOW: In a formal statement issued by Amnesty International, the international agency has demanded that India must take prompt steps to enhance security for Pakistani prisoners lodged in Indian jails following jail attacks in both countries. The statement was made in the wake of an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu.

The prisoner, Sanaullah Haq, was reportedly attacked with a sharp weapon by a fellow inmate at Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu and sustained severe head injuries. He is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chandigarh, 300km from Jammu. As on Sunday afternoon, doctors said that his condition continued to remain critical.

In an official statement released by Amnesty International, programme director of Amnesty International India, Shashikumar Velath, said, "Indian authorities should take immediate steps to protect Pakistani prisoners in various jails of India and ensure that such attacks do not recur."

A resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, Sanaullah was convicted by a special court dealing with offences under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act and Prevention of Terrorism Act in 2008. The court sentenced him to two terms of life imprisonment for involvement in bombings in a bus and van in Jammu and Kashmir in 1994 that killed 17 people. A team of Pakistani officials have been given consular access to meet Sanaullah at the Chandigarh hospital.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has suspended two jail officials including the jail superintendent and ordered an official inquiry into the attack. The inmate allegedly responsible for the attack has been charged with attempted murder.

The attack came a day after the death of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death row inmate in Pakistan. Sarabjit Singh was reportedly beaten with bricks and iron bars by other inmates while walking in the grounds of Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore on 26 April.

Activists have demanded enhanced security for Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails citing that they could be at risk of attacks. India's ministry of home affairs has instructed jail authorities in various states to enhance existing security arrangements for Pakistani prisoners.

"Both Indian and Pakistani authorities must take prompt and concrete steps to ensure that prisoners do not face any further attacks," said Shashikumar Velath.

Authorities estimate that there are around 535 Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails and 270 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails. Relatives and lawyers often complain that Indian and Pakistani authorities do not provide them with adequate access to these prisoners.

Amnesty International also urged governments of both India and Pakistan to immediately commute all death sentences and establish an official moratorium on executions, with a view to abolishing the death penalty.

Link - Amnesty International urges India, Pakistan to ensure better security for prisoners. - The Times of India

 

[sexy gun]

I dont think we need death sentences... a couple of fellow prison mates can do the job

 

[PlanetWarrior]

I dont think we need death sentences... a couple of fellow prison mates can do the job

It's not funny when an inmate (irrespective of nationality, race or religion) is murdered in a prison. India and Pakistan should be hanging their heads in shame at these incidents. Until they prove otherwise, they are nothing less than savage nations. May the murdered inmates (both Indian and Pakistani) have mercy on these two countries

 

[Icewolf]

Indians better remember there are more indians here thAn pakistanis over there

tit for tat response india did was not mature, but pakistan can do even more that will make indian beg infront of pakistan @ the UNHRC

 

[illusion8]

Indians better remember there are more indians here thAn pakistanis over there

tit for tat response india did was not mature, but pakistan can do even more that will make indian beg infront of pakistan @ the UNHRC

After we returned 90,000 POW's without a scratch? yeah ok - mighty brave of Pakistani's threatening to kill prisoners under their watch.

P.S. I regret what happened to the Pakistani prisoner in India.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Indians better remember there are more indians here thAn pakistanis over there

tit for tat response india did was not mature, but pakistan can do even more that will make indian beg infront of pakistan @ the UNHRC

How exactly will India beg before the UNCHR (sic!) ?? Do you not believe that the deaths of both inmates were irresponsible on the parts of the Pakistani and Indian governments? Or do you subscribe to the view that the death of the Pakistani inmate was more regretable ?

After we returned 90,000 POW's without a scratch? yeah ok - mighty brave of Pakistani's threatening to kill prisoners under their watch.

P.S. I regret what happened to the Pakistani prisoner in India.

PS. "We" didn't do any fovors to the Pakistani government in 1971 by returning those prisoners safe and sound. If "we" did otherwise, the world including Russia would have kicked our azz

 

[illusion8]

How exactly will India beg before the UNCHR (sic!) ?? Do you not believe that the deaths of both inmates were irresponsible on the parts of the Pakistani and Indian governments? Or do you subscribe to the view that the death of the Pakistani inmate was more regretable ?



PS. "We" didn't do any fovors to the Pakistani government in 1971 by returning those prisoners safe and sound. If "we" did otherwise, the world including Russia would have kicked our azz

Accidents do happen and could have happened -( that is if we were Pakistan and the POW's were Indian ) would the world bother to check each every POW's condition individually?

 

[Icewolf]

After we returned 90,000 POW's without a scratch? yeah ok - mighty brave of Pakistani's threatening to kill prisoners under their watch.

P.S. I regret what happened to the Pakistani prisoner in India.

well those were POW's and according to Geneva convention u couldnt attack them

 

[illusion8]

well those were POW's and according to Geneva convention u couldnt attack them

But POW's got attacked none the less ...right? Capt Kalia...if you remember?

 

[Icewolf]

How exactly will India beg before the UNCHR (sic!) ?? Do you not believe that the deaths of both inmates were irresponsible on the parts of the Pakistani and Indian governments? Or do you subscribe to the view that the death of the Pakistani inmate was more regretable ?

i suscribe to both views.

look, if india hadn't hanged afzal guru or kasab as election stunts, this hostility wouldn'thave happened, nor would have two indian soldiers been beheaded, nor would sarabjit be attacked on basis of personal revenge.

in all reality, sarabjit only had a few years left, he would have been hanged in a jolt after afzal gurus hanging had not tahir ul qadri stormed islamabad.

plus, sarabjit was a convicted terrorist, and the prisoners in kot lakhpat might have hated indians.

But POW's got attacked none the less ...right? Capt Kalia...if you remember?

well we should let that go, but if pakistan carries on this tit for tat response that india did, it will not be good for indian govt reputation (good for media's ratings though)

 

[illusion8]

i suscribe to both views.

look, if india hadn't hanged afzal guru or kasab as election stunts, this hostility wouldn'thave happened, nor would have two indian soldiers been beheaded, nor would sarabjit be attacked on basis of personal revenge.

in all reality, sarabjit only had a few years left, he would have been hanged in a jolt after afzal gurus hanging had not tahir ul qadri stormed islamabad.

plus, sarabjit was a convicted terrorist, and the prisoners in kot lakhpat might have hated indians.



well we should let that go, but if pakistan carries on this tit for tat response that india did, it will not be good for indian govt reputation (good for media's ratings though)

It would not be good for either of us - the world considers both of us boilers with nukes anyways. I hope this closes the whole chapter - but I doubt it.