Pakistan’s incoming government should convert the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh into life imprisonment on “humanitarian grounds” and ensure his early release, caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney said on Monday.
Burney, a leading human rights activist, requested the incoming government and prime minister-designate Yousuf Raza Gillani to convert Sarabjit’s death sentence into life imprisonment.
He said Sarabjit Singh had “spent more than a life sentence on death row in Pakistani jails”, which was “worse than hell”.
Burney said he would not allow the government to hang a person for “reportedly mistaken identity”.