Pakistani lawyers have banded together to prevent the prosecution of one of their number accused of violating and murdering a 12-year-old girl, a Christian, going so far as to issue death threats to anyone participating in the case, and physically preventing access to the court.
The case in question concerns the homicide of a 12-year-old girl who worked as a maid at the Lahore household of a family of a prominent lawyer. The girl was a member of Pakistan’s frequently persecuted Christian minority.
Police judged the girl to have been beaten to death, and a local hospital reported she had received a broken arm and jaw, and that she had suffered fatal wounds to her genitals.
The family claimed she died falling down the stairs, although doctors found her corpse was already days old when first reported.
After police took members of the alleged murderer’s family into custody, the city’s lawyers banded together under the auspices of the Lahore Bar Association in order to oppose the prosecution, which they claim is a media witchhunt. The head of the accused family is a former president of this body.
The city’s lawyers attempted to stop court proceedings by forming a mob outside the court and physically restraining anyone from entering, including the girl’s family and journalists.
So intimidating were their actions that no legal counsel has dared come forth to prosecute. One Christian group reports that the lawyers even threatened to “burn alive” anyone involved in the prosecution.
Police were said to be supportive of the lawyers, even as they abused journalists, human rights organisations, minority parties and bishops.
National politicians have condemned the homicide and called for justice, though apparently stopping short of intervening.
Via The News and AsiaNews.it.
Think goes to crazy, huh?!?
Seriously, f♥♥k every and all religion and the nutjobs that abide by them. Historically, it was useful, now it’s just a means to bypass the law.
Sad part is that most lawyers i seen, (not all), are like this, these ones are just open to it. A lot people who know the loop holes in the law can do anything, and the other people who have the money can do all they want since they can pay ppl to do this. I would have made all cops and lawyers who had any take in this at all be arrested on the spot, and charged. That way, the entrance is freed and the case can continue.
Also, isn’t threatening to burn someone alive count as a death threat, meaning they can be charged?
(not sure if all cops were part of this, but there must have been a way to punish all those doing this)
Lawyers are evil, people! This is just par for the course. If it’s already blown over they’ll just go back sucking blood at night.
What the ****?! What kind of s♥♥t is this??