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Like other developing countries of the world, Police
Torture is very common here in Pakistan as well. Local
Laws clearly disallow police or any other person to
torture anybody but even than various occurrences are
seen on daily basis. Simple People do not have
understanding and information about their rights and it
is the reason, when somebody is illegally arrested and
tortured and some times legally arrested and badly
tortured, simple and uneducated people think that Police
has the authority to arrest and torture. Only 2% torture
cases are reported and remaining never even think to
speak against the police due to their terror.
Most of the time, Police torture with the accused on the
main spots and sometimes accused died during their
custody. If some poor man or hungry child commit any
crime or sometimes, if some bounded laborer disobey the
order of his master, he is involved in malicious
prosecution and tortured by the police. Situation of
police torture is very bad in all over the country but
in the targeted area for IBJ Project as JusticeMaker
Fellow 10, is much worsen. You can see the attached link
of Police torture in Kasur district of Punjab Province
in Pakistan.
http://isamaa.tv/2010-05-19-kasur-police-torcher/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17L6IJy5gA
Good Thinkers organization is conducting awareness
raising sessions in different rural areas, where
participants are told about their basic rights,
especially related to illegal arrest, police torture and
right to have a lawyer.
GTO focused on Rural communities, especially women
because, when a person is illegally or legally arrested
and than tortured, mostly female family member remain
out of the police custody, who can immediately move to
the court for stopping torture and consulting with some
lawyer.
It was very surprising for women, when they come to know
that no body can be tortured by the police because
before that time, they were of the view that police has
the authority to arrest anybody and can torture, when
they want.
GTO give a list of Volunteer Lawyers to the
participants, who are ready to provide legal support to
accused.
During the awareness sessions, it was observed that in
district Jail Kasur, some prisoners are awaiting for
their trial for last various years. Most of the people
are in jail for many months just because of not paying
their minor Fines.
During the awareness Raising sessions, some ex.
Prisoners disclosed that they are given unhygienic food,
contaminated drinking water and tortured by Jail Police
even without any mistake. They further told that in the
Jail, Prisoners, who have very strong background and
paying regular bribe to the Jail police are given Mobile
Phone Facility and good food and clean water.
International Bridges to Justice supported this project
financially and provided technical skills to work
effectively to get required results
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