The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on Wednesday said Pakistan must review the conviction and death sentence awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former Indian naval officer arrested by Pakistan. Pakistan has said that it arrested Jadhav on March 3, 2016, from the Balochistan region. He was tried on charges of espionage by a military court and was sentenced to death in April 2017. India moved the ICJ in May in 2017 against the “farcical trial” by the Pakistani military court against 48-year-old Jadhav. The court upheld the Indian side’s claim that upon arrest of Jadhav, Pakistan did not follow the Vienna Convention protocol and did not inform the Indian consulate in Pakistan about the arrest and scuttled the chances of any consular assistance to Jadhav.

Source: The Telegraph July 17, 2019 15:08 UTC