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Enforcement 🇵🇰 Pakistan

Pakistan reportedly flogs two men convicted of smuggling hashish

Two Irishmen reportedly received five lashes in Peshawar Central Jail after convictions for smuggling hashish.[1] The UN torture rapporteur recorded the incident through Amnesty International's citation of Pakistani media.[1] Parliament abolished non-hadd whipping the following April.[2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Pakistan here.

References

  1. Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture: visit to Pakistan
  2. Abolition of the Punishment of Whipping Act 1996, original Gazettearchived

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