Welcome to ‘the world’s largest death row’
April 12, 2017
Despite allegations of rights abuses, Pakistan continues to be one of the five most prolific executioners in the world.
Lahore, Pakistan – Exhausted from a full day’s work, 25-year-old student Sohail Yafat knew he had one last stop to make before heading home: a visit to a colleague’s ailing father at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology hospital, in his native Lahore, Pakistan’s second city.
Yafat never expected the police to be there, waiting for him. He was arrested, and bundled into a police van.
“There was no warrant. This was all purely on suspicion,” he says. “I was blindfolded, and I was brutally tortured and beaten on the way. I had never even entered a police station, so I had no idea of this world.”
