Ali Raza

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Charge:	Firearm & Explosives
Sentence:	14 years
Years Imprisoned:	2.75
Year Crime:	2014
Year Convicted:	2017
Year Cleared:	2017
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
County or Region of Crime:	Sindh
City of Crime:	Karachi
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Abdul Haq, Kashif, Muhammad Saleem, Rashid Ali and Ali Raza were codefendants wrongly convicted on May 9, 2017 by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi, Pakistan of possessing illicit arms and explosives. The prosecution of the five men was based on their arrest in 2014 the New Karachi Industrial Area by police who claimed they were found in possession of arms and explosives, which the prosecution argued they were going to use in planned terror attacks. The defense of the five defendants was that their prosecution was a fake criminal case because no arms and explosives were found in their possession. After their convictions Haq and Raza were sentenced to 14 years in prison, Kashif was sentenced to eight years in prison, and Saleem AKA Muhammad Salim and Rashid Ali AKA Arshad were sentenced to one year imprisonment. The five defendants appealed. On September 12, 2017 the Sindh High Court set aside the convictions of Abdul Haq, Kashif, Muhammad Saleem, Rashid Ali and Ali Raza based on the prosecution introducing insufficient evidence of their guilt. The High Court ordered the men's immediate release if their custody was not required in any other case."
Conviction Caused By:	Fake prosecution based on non-existent evidence seized from the defendants.
Innocence Proved By:	"On September 12, 2017 the Sindh High Court set aside the convictions of Abdul Haq, Kashif, Muhammad Saleem, Rashid Ali and Ali Raza based on the prosecution introducing insufficient evidence of their guilt. The High Court ordered the men's immediate release if their custody was not required in any other case."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Middle eastern roots
Information Source 1:	"SHC sets aside ATC's conviction of five terror suspects, By Naeem Sahoutara, The Express Tribune (Karachi, Pakistan), September 12, 2017"
Information Location 1:	https://tribune.com.pk/story/1504371/shc-sets-aside-atcs-conviction-five-terror-suspects/
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Ali Raza

Charge:

Firearm & Explosives

Sentence:

14 years

Years Imprisoned:

2.75

Year Crime:

2014

Year Convicted:

2017

Year Cleared:

2017

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

Sindh

City of Crime:

Karachi

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Fake prosecution based on non-existent evidence seized from the defendants.

Innocence Proved By:

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Middle eastern roots

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"SHC sets aside ATC's conviction of five terror suspects, By Naeem Sahoutara, The Express Tribune (Karachi, Pakistan), September 12, 2017"

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https://tribune.com.pk/story/1504371/shc-sets-aside-atcs-conviction-five-terror-suspects/

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