{"id":11629,"date":"2024-12-24T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:05:25","slug":"us-expresses-concern-over-military-courts-sentencing-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11629","title":{"rendered":"US expresses concern over military courts sentencing civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington: The United States has expressed serious concern over the sentencing of civilians by military courts in the May 9 cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department, expressing deep concern over the proceedings of Pakistan&#8217;s military courts, stated in a statement that Washington has reservations regarding the sentencing actions carried out by military tribunals against civilians involved in the May 9 protests.<\/p>\n<p>According to a foreign news agency, the U.S. government has termed these sentences as being against the principles of a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that earlier, the European Union also expressed strong concern over this decision, stating that the judgments made by military courts against civilians in Pakistan violate international agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union, in its statement, urged Pakistan to protect the rights of its citizens and ensure fair trials for them.<\/p>\n<p>The British Foreign Office also criticized the trial of civilian cases in military courts, stating in a statement that there is a lack of transparency and independent scrutiny in military courts, raising questions about the justice process.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom holds the view that such actions violate fundamental principles of justice and infringe upon public rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The United States has expressed serious concern over the sentencing of civilians by military courts in the May 9 cases. The U.S. State Department, expressing deep concern over the proceedings of Pakistan&#8217;s military courts, stated in a statement that Washington has reservations regarding the sentencing actions carried out by military tribunals against civilians involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[2797,4704,4744,4743,1173,62,4745,4746,2493],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-european-union","tag-fair-trial","tag-human-rights","tag-may-9-protests","tag-military-courts","tag-pakistan","tag-transparency","tag-uk-foreign-office","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}