Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution Friday calling for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists. The non-binding resolution follows a spate of high-profile child sex-abuse cases that have provoked outrage and riots across Pakistan in recent years. Pakistan has passed a non-binding resolution to hang child killers and rapists publicly today in parliament'The Quran commands us that a murderer should be hanged,' Khan added. In October 2018, authorities hanged a child rapist in an infamous case in Kasur, near Lahore, that sparked nationwide protests. In March 2016, Pakistan introduced a law criminalising sexual assault against minors, child pornography and trafficking.

Source: Daily Mail February 07, 2020 15:50 UTC