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Release
prisoners who have completed term: Pakistan-India panel
Saturday April 23, 2011 02:31:50 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: The
India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners has recommended to
the two governments to immediately release prisoners who have
completed jail term and whose verification has been completed, a
statement said Saturday.
Members of the committee, who concluded a five-day visit to
Pakistan Friday, also recommended that either country's all
prisoners in the other country should be provided legal aid at all
stages of their cases by the respective government, according to a
joint statement.
The committee also suggested that the nationality verification
process should be facilitated and all those prisoners who have
completed their sentences and whose travel documents are available
should be repatriated to their respective countries at the
earliest, Xinhua quoted officials as saying.
There are hundreds of prisoners, including fishermen, from either
country still languishing in jails in the other country and they
usually complain about ill-treatment.
The two countries had formed a joint committee, comprised of
former judges, to look into this issue.
The committee recommended humane approach in dealing with the
cases of fishermen, women and juvenile prisoners, prisoners
terminally ill or suffering from serious illness or physical
disability and mentally disabled people, the statement said.
The committee suggested that the next visit to Indian jails by the
committee may be scheduled preferably during the second half of
June.
During the visit, the Pakistani side shared the lists of Indian
fishermen and civilian prisoners.
The committee appreciated the release of 89 fishermen by the
Pakistani authorities and one Pakistani fisherman and 44 civil
prisoners by the Indian authorities.
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