Pakistan: Plans to execute 500 more prisoners ‘deeply disturbing’

Headline Title: Pakistan: Plans to execute 500 more prisoners ‘deeply disturbing’ 22 December 2014 Pakistan's reported plans to execute 500 more people are “deeply disturbing” and would do nothing to protect civilians from the conflict with the Taliban, Amnesty International said today. The reports come following the execution of six people in the past four days in the wake of the deadly Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.“The planned execution figures being quoted are deeply disturbing and indicate a huge regression from a government which until last week maintained a moratorium…

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