In a small, dank, insect-infested cell in a Pakistani jail, a 73-year-old man is waiting to die. He is kept in solitary confinement for days on end. He cannot exercise properly, since the room measures only 6ft by 8ft, including the latrine.
There is no window, and sometimes the lights are switched off so he sits in blackness for days on end, waiting to be able to see again. For long periods he is given no access to books or newspapers, let alone visitors, with the result that he feels increasingly divorced from the outside world, and in fear of his
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