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PAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS HANGED IN ADIALA JAIL

19 July 2016 :

Two murder convicts were hanged in the morning in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
According to jail authorities, Tahir Hussain and Chan Zaib were executed for killing two people for showing resistance during a robbery bid in 2003 in Sadiqabad police station.
The bodies of both the convicts were handed over to their relatives.
 
(Sources: jasarat.org, 18/07/2016)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.