Pakistan's Overcrowded Prisons Ravaged By Pandemic, Amnesty Says
December 14, 2020
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Pakistan’s handling of the coronavirus threat faced by tens of thousands of detainees held in overcrowded prisons has been severely criticized in a report by Amnesty International (AI) released on December 14.
The report, titled Prisoners Of The Pandemic: The Right To Health And COVID-19 In Pakistan's Detention Facilities, called for renewed efforts to free some categories of inmates, especially the elderly, women, and “prisoners of conscience.”
The Pakistani government has not fulfilled a pledge to ease prison overcrowding made when the pandemic first hit, said the joint report by the London-based AI and Justice Project Pakistan.