FEB 7, 2020 AT 1:11 PM.
Pakistan Swiftly Passes Resolution Calling for Public Hanging of Pedophiles
•Human rights activists quickly condemned the passage of the resolution•
Pakistan’s parliament passed a resolution Friday that calls for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists.
AFP reports that the resolution, which is non-binding, comes after a number of high-profile child sex-abuse cases have scandalized the South Asian nation in recent years, leading to major outbreaks of unrest and riots.
Parliamentary affairs minister Ali Muhammad Khan, who presented the resolution in the lower house of the legislature, said that child killers and rapists “should not only be given the death penalty by hanging, but they should be hanged publicly.”
“The Quran commands us that a murderer should be hanged,” the minister added.
While the resolution was swiftly passed by a majority of lawmakers, human rights minister Shireen Mazari has emphatically stated that it does not enjoy the backing of the government…cont.
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