Insight - Pakistan's new military courts challenged over abuse claims


  • World
  • Tuesday, 28 Jun 2016

A man rides a bicycle past the Supreme Court building in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether secret military tribunals set up in early 2015 to try civilians accused of terrorism have violated the constitutional rights of 12 people convicted by these courts.

The military tribunals were established after the massacre in December, 2014, by Islamist militants of 134 students at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

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