Karachi, Aug 04 (ANI): Pakistan on Tuesday hanged a man whose case has angered rights groups after his lawyers argued that he was arrested as a juvenile and his family said he had been tortured into confessing. School records show Shafqat Hussain was 17 when he was arrested in 2004 and convicted of the abduction and murder of a seven-year-old boy, his lawyers said. His family has previously said he was 14. Hanging someone who committed a crime as a juvenile is illegal under Pakistani law. State prosecutors insist that Hussain was an adult working as a watchman when he was arrested. Hussain was hanged shortly before dawn at a jail in Pakistan’s Karachi city. The relatives arrived to receive his body. Before the execution, Hussain’s family had said his case was not properly handled and he had been tortured into confessing.
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