Pakistan has executed 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. Shafqat Hussain was hanged on Tuesday at a jail in Karachi for allegedly killing a seven-year-old boy in 2004. Aljazeeera has more:
His lawyers and family say he was only 15 years old at the time of the killing but according to a federal investigation, he was 23.“Despite opposition from within the country as well as Amnesty International, Pakistan went ahead with the execution,” said Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.Prison officials handed the body over to his brothers, who alleged the execution was not carried out properly.“There is a cut mark on his neck and half of his neck is separated from his body,” Abdul Majeed, his brother, told AFP.
