Lahore, March 28: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern at the Youhanabad Christian community’s complaints of police highhandedness in rounding up people on the suspicion of their involvement with the lynching and burning of two young men and the state of fear that prevails in the locality. The Commission

Lahore, March 24: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the ‘disappearance’ of one of its activists, Shahdad Mumtaz, in Turbat and demanded that Shahdad must be accorded due process if he is suspected of any crime, or immediately released by the security forces that had detained him on Saturday. In a

Lahore, March 16: While condemning the attacks on Lahore’s two churches last Sunday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the federal and provincial governments to act decisively to protect the religious minorities’ interests if greater disasters are to be avoided. In a statement issued here today, the commission said: The

Lahore, March 13: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called upon the prime minister and the minister of the interior to intervene to spare the life of Shafqat Hussain, a death row prisoner who was around 14 years old at the time of commission of the offence that he has been convicted of.

Lahore, March 11: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed grave concern over recent actions by the authorities aimed at resuming executions for all death penalty offences. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Commission said: “HRCP must express its serious alarm over worrying recent movement towards resumption of executions for all

Lahore, March 5: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the denial of foreign travel to three Baloch human rights activists after the authorities informed them at the airport that their names had been added to the Exit Control List (ECL) reportedly on account of their anti-state activities. In a statement issued

Lahore, February 12: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm over threats of violence made against the staff of AWARE, an NGO working in Tharparkar and nearby districts of Sindh, by a relative of a provincial minister. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Commission said: “HRCP notes with grave

Lahore, February 04, 2015: The international conference on disappearances in Asia, held in Islamabad on Feb 2-3, 2015, has called upon all Asian states to take effective measures to eliminate the practice of enforced and involuntary disappearances. These states have been asked to recognise enforced disappearance as a distinct criminal offence, cooperate with the