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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 01:51 PM Jul 2014

Pakistan has convicted zero people for rape over the past 5 years. zero.

Zero. That is the conviction rate for rape cases filed over the last five years in Pakistan, according to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Syeda Sughra Imam. Speaking before the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice, the senator said the dismal statistics led her to move a bill to amend existing laws on the issue.

The committee met under the chairmanship of the PPP’s Senator Kazim Khan for a roundtable discussion with representatives from bar councils. “We will first determine why the conviction rate is zero and whether [it is something inherent] in the laws, the judiciary or the legal procedure itself,” Senator Kazim told The Express Tribune on Sunday. “In my opinion, the stages of legal procedure, investigation and trial require comprehensive legislation,” said Senator Imam.

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s (HRCP) 2013 report, 2,576 cases of rape were registered in Punjab in 2013 – the highest among all provinces. According to official records, 127 cases of rape and three cases of gang-rape were registered in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa last year, whereas 27 cases of gang-rape were reported in Sindh. The conviction rate in cases of sexual and other violence against women remained critically low and on December 13, female senators staged a walkout from the Senate to protest the lack of convictions.

According to a research study by Rutgers World Population Foundation (WPF) in Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Jaffarabad, and Naseerabad districts, 66 per cent of women interviewed said that they had experienced sexual violence, whereas 93 per cent said that they had been subjected to marital rape.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/728949/zero-conviction-rate-for-rape-senator-proposes-constitutional-changes/

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Pakistan has convicted zero people for rape over the past 5 years. zero. (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2014 OP
It's like they have the 'stand your ground law' version of rape laws. onehandle Jul 2014 #1
Another example of what happens when fundies run a country snooper2 Jul 2014 #2
Well, that is probably a good thing get the red out Jul 2014 #3
Enforcement issues. Igel Jul 2014 #4

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. It's like they have the 'stand your ground law' version of rape laws.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 02:11 PM
Jul 2014

Rape rights are their second amendment.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
2. Another example of what happens when fundies run a country
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 02:15 PM
Jul 2014

Maybe it should be required everyon in Pakistan watch this


If Religions Were Real




get the red out

(13,459 posts)
3. Well, that is probably a good thing
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 02:50 PM
Jul 2014

Wouldn't they have to arrest the woman who had been raped and charge her the same? Or would her family have to go through the messy trouble of killing her themselves? That could leave a stain on the carpet you know.

Igel

(35,197 posts)
4. Enforcement issues.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 04:21 PM
Jul 2014

Retribution. Cultural ways of dealing with such things. And cultural imperatives against pursuing prosecution. Lots of ways to bleed cases out of the court system and handle them informally or simply drop them.

But it's worthwhile to keep this in mind.

Here it's obvious there are rapes but something preventing convictions.

In the case of rapes in the US there are still a fair number that don't go to trial even if the perp is IDed.

But here, as in other kinds of crimes, "There are no reported convictions for X" most certainly doesn't mean that there are no instances of X. Yet from time to time we hear "there are no successful prosecutions for this crime" used to mean that "this crime" doesn't occur.

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