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- Prefer DW on Google A women's prison in Multan, Punjab province, Pakistan.
- Despite constant pain and bleeding in jail, he was given routine medicine instead of a specialist doctor. By the time she finally reached th.
- This incident is recorded in the recently released Prison Data Report by the Justice Project Pakistan and the National Commission for Human.
Prefer DW on Google A women's prison in Multan, Punjab province, Pakistan.
This incident is recorded in the recently released Prison Data Report by the Justice Project Pakistan and the National Commission for Human Rights. According to the report's authors, this incident shows how pretrial detention can affect an entire family, while women can face serious health risks before being convicted that are specifically related to their gender needs.
According to the Prison Data Report 2026, the number of women prisoners in the country's jails rose from 1,534 in 2024 to 2,020, an increase of nearly 32 percent in two years. Among them, more than 78 percent of women's cases are pending. Post-homicide drug cases are a major reason for women's incarceration.
"The vast majority of women are from very poor families. Most are married, a large number are cut off from their families and illiterate," Ayesha Gurdzi, one of the authors of the report, told DW Urdu.
