Pakistan hangs man lawyers say was a child when charged with murder
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case triggered an international outcry after his lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder. Pakistan has hanged nearly 200 people since December, when a massacre by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar prompted the government to lift a de facto ban on capital punishment. Only Iran and China have executed more people than Pakistan this year, says human rights group Amnesty International. "Shafqat Hussain was this morning ...
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