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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Pakistan -- Military tribunals should be immediately abolished.
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January 8, 1999
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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 1999-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Pakistan -- Military tribunals should be immediately abolished (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Today's acquittal of thirteen-year old Mohammad Saleem, 20 days after he was sentenced to death by a military court highlights the Pakistani government's disregard for international human rights standards, Amnesty International said.
While welcoming the acquittal, the organization believes that the death sentence should never have been imposed in the first place -- on a child or anybody.
"Pakistan is flouting its obligations as a state party to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which ...
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