Rani Bibi

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	19
Year Crime:	1998
Year Convicted:	2001
Year Cleared:	2020
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Chiniot
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Rani Bibi (now known as Rani Tanveer) was wrongly convicted in 2001 of murder in the death of her husband in 1998 in Pakistan. Also convicted were her father and her brother. The prosecution of all three was based on the discovery of the body of Bibi's husband buried at his residence, 25 miles from where he was last seen at the home of Bibi's parents and brother. He had a head injury caused by a blunt weapon. Bibi's mother was also arrested in 1998, but she was released after being jailed for six months. Bibi was a child bride who was 13 when arrested in 1998. After their convictions, Bibi, her father, Muhammad Amir, and brother were sentenced to life in prison. Bibi's father died in 2009 after 11 years in custody, and her brother died in 2013 after 15 years in custody. A prison superintendent failed to mail her appeal to the high court that she had drafted and given to him to mail. Bibi did not have a state appointed lawyer, and she couldn't afford a private lawyer. In 2014 Bibi's case was taken over by AGHS Legal Aid Cell, which filed an appeal on her behalf. Bibi's conviction was overturned in 2017 by the Lahore High Court on the basis there was insufficient evidence to prove her guilt. In announcing the ruling, the judge said she was “left to anguish in the jail solely due to (the) lacklustre attitude of the jail authorities." The judge also said, "This court feels helpless in compensating her." Bibi was released after 19 years in custody. Bibi was 32 when released on December 6, 2017. She remarried in January 2020, and became known as Rani Tanveer by taking the name of her husband. In March 2020 Tanveer became the first person in Pakistan to file a lawsuit seeking compensation for her wrongful conviction. Tanveer was represented in the lawsuit by the legal advocacy group Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR), which is based in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. She is now living in Midranjha village in Punjab province. When interviewed following the filing of the compensation suit, Tanveer said she remembered her murdered husband as "a good man." Pakistan became a signatory in 2010 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – a treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1966 that guarantees in Article 14(6) the right to compensation for victims of wrongful convictions. However, Pakistan has not incorporated the right to compensation into the country's law."
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Innocence Proved By:	Tanveer's conviction was overturned in 2017 and she was released after 19 years in custody.
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Age When Imprisoned:	13
Age When Released:	32
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Information Source 1:	"LHC acquits woman in murder case after 18 years in prison, By Staff, Dunyanews.TV, December 7, 2017"
Information Location 1:	https://dunyanews.tv/en/Business
Information Source 2:	"Child Bride Jailed for Killing Husband, Seeks Justice 19 Years Later, By Zofeen Ebrahim, TheCitizen.In, May 12, 2020"
Information Location 2:	https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/7/18726/Child-Bride-Jailed-for-Killing-Husband-Seeks-Justice-19-Years-Later
Information Source 3:	"Pakistani child bride wrongly jailed for murder courts justice, By Reuters, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), April 16, 2020"
Information Location 3:	https://tribune.com.pk/story/2199429/1-pakistani-child-bride-wrongly-jailed-murder-courts-justice/
Information Source 4:	"Pakistani child bride wrongfully detained for murder in homicide courts, By Zofeen T. Ebrahim, Archyde.com, April 16, 2020"
Information Location 4:	https://www.archyde.com/interview-pakistani-child-bride-wrongfully-detained-for-murder-in-homicide-courts/
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Rani Bibi

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

19

Year Crime:

1998

Year Convicted:

2001

Year Cleared:

2020

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Chiniot

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Tanveer's conviction was overturned in 2017 and she was released after 19 years in custody.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

13

Age When Released:

32

Sex:

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"LHC acquits woman in murder case after 18 years in prison, By Staff, Dunyanews.TV, December 7, 2017"

Information Location 1:

https://dunyanews.tv/en/Business

Information Source 2:

"Child Bride Jailed for Killing Husband, Seeks Justice 19 Years Later, By Zofeen Ebrahim, TheCitizen.In, May 12, 2020"

Information Location 2:

https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/7/18726/Child-Bride-Jailed-for-Killing-Husband-Seeks-Justice-19-Years-Later

Information Source 3:

"Pakistani child bride wrongly jailed for murder courts justice, By Reuters, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), April 16, 2020"

Information Location 3:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2199429/1-pakistani-child-bride-wrongly-jailed-murder-courts-justice/

Information Source 4:

"Pakistani child bride wrongfully detained for murder in homicide courts, By Zofeen T. Ebrahim, Archyde.com, April 16, 2020"

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https://www.archyde.com/interview-pakistani-child-bride-wrongfully-detained-for-murder-in-homicide-courts/

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