Detail of the Jails in Pakistan

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Detail of the Jails in Pakistan
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Province-wise Women Prisoners under Hudood Cases
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Laws Involved

• The Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood
  Ordinance VII of 1979)
• Sections 7,10,11,13,14,16,19
• The Offence Against Property (Enforcement of
  Hudood Ordinance VI of 1979)
• Sections 4,5,9,15,17,18
• Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860)
• Sections 34, 295-B, 302, 324, 337-F, 363,
  379, 380, 420

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Detail of ages of the women prisoners

• Minimum 13 years
• Maximum 70 years
• Age between 13-25 years 117 women
  (48)

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Professions

• House wife 167 (68)
• Working Women 79 (32)
• i.e. Factory workers, Farmers, Beauticians,
  Tailors, Handicraft sellers, midwives, beggars,
  Stage Dancers, Trainer in Vocational Institutes,
  Government Servant

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Education Level

• Uneducated 194 (78.8)
• Primary 28
• Middle 09
• Matric 11
• Inter 03
• Graduate 01
• Masters Nil

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• 215 women were married
• 31 women were unmarried
• 15 Women were pregnant after Rape/ Zina
• 61 children (age from one month to 20 years) are
  living with 46 women prisoners
• One woman got abortion

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Allegations

• Zina (Adultery)
• Second marriage without Talaq (Divorce)
• Kidnapping
• Selling and Buying of women for the purpose of
  prostitution
• Theft
• Dacoity
• Causing Hurt and Murder

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Actual Facts

• Free will marriage
• Relatives of the boys (i.e. sister, mother and
  other family members) were arrested and detained
  on the charge of kidnapping
• Refusal of forced marriage
• Personal enmity
• Single women were arrested on the complaint of
  neighbours

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• Visit the mothers/ relatives house without the
  permission of husband
• Demand of Divorce due to maltreatment by husband
• Refusal of sexual relationship
• Prostitution due to poverty and jobless of
  husband
• Forced by the family members for taking divorce
  from husband of her free will marriage

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• Oral Talaq (Divorce) and non-registration of the
  Talaqnama (Divorce Deed)
• Fraud by boy friend as he took her to his friends
  for sexual purpose
• Land dispute (usurping of women land)
• Beggar woman was raped and both the accused and
  victim were arrested, Police converted the rape
  case into Zina (Adultery)

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• Access to Legal Aid and Support by Family members
• Legal Aid provided 141 (57)
• Support by family members 109 (44)
• Most of them were supported by the members of
  their in-laws in the cases of free will marriages

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Obstacles

• Difficulty for getting permission from Home
  Department, Inspector General Prisons and Jail
  Superintendent
• In some cases non-cooperation of Jail
  Administration
• Conceal of the actual facts by the accused
• Negative attitude by the Jail Administration with
  women accused

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Collection of Data Sources

• Home Department
• Inspector General Prisons
• Aurat Foundations Team
• Members of Citizens Action Committee (A network
  of Aurat Foundation at district level)

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• Dedicated to Shahla Zia, who always encouraged us
  in the struggle of womens rights, especially for
  the Repeal of Hudood Ordinances