Mohammed Akhtar A female prisoner was sent to prison in 1946, where she was raped and gave birth to Mohammed Akhter in 1948. The mother then died when Akhter was five years old. With no one to claim him, he spent 40 years in the prison, never leaving its premises. He was spotted by Ansar Burney during a visit to the prison and released in 1988. Woman imprisoned for 55 years A girl, whose name was never known, was arrested in 1936 at age 15 for upsetting the British Viceroy at the time. Without any charge or ever being presented before a court, she remained in prison for 55 years, becoming deaf and mute. She was released in 1991 at age 70 only after she was discovered by Burney who took up her situation with Sindh Governor, Justice (ret'd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, who ordered her immediate release. Ghulam Fatima A witness to the murder of her husband during the Muslim-Hindu riots of 1947, Ghulam Fatima lost her mental balance and was arrested by the police for loitering and sent to Lahore Mental Prison where she remained for 45 years. She was discovered by Burney during a trip to the asylum and released in 1992. Lobbying against death penalty in Pakistan For many years, as a human rights lawyer and expert on the Pakistani legal system, and well aware of its flaws, Burney has appealed to both the Pakistani Supreme Court and various presidents of Pakistan to commute the death sentence of all condemned prisoners to life imprisonment. As a result of investigations by Burney and his organisation, many condemned to death in Pakistan are in fact either innocent victims of false testimonies or circumstances, or now mentally and physically disabled due to their decades-long confinement in harsh and inhumane conditions within Pakistani prisons. In 2012, as a direct result of Burney's petitions, former President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari instructed various branches of the Pakistani government to provide advice on the possibility of converting all death sentences in Pakistan into life imprisonment. The president stayed or postponed executions for two years. However, following the 2014 Peshawar school massacre, Pakistan lifted a moratorium on death penalty. It has to be noted that the moratorium was not put in place as a result of Burney's actions though he might have affected that earlier decision. Anti human trafficking, false imprisonment and slavery Ansar