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This chapter examines secret military courts established for trying civilians charged with terrorism-related offenses. The first section examines how the Pakistani authorities failed to provide institutional independence to military courts (e.g., by keeping the courts within the executive branch of power) and to secure the individual independence of judges (e.g., by appointing as judges military officers with no legal training and no security of tenure). The second section explores how military courts failed to meet some key requirements of a fair trial (e.g., defendants had no right to a public hearing, no right to have a defense lawyer). The last section examines how the imposition of the death penalty by military courts was inconsistent with Pakistan’s obligation to protect the right to life. |
