20 years on death row: The story of Mohammad Iqbal

It is said that waiting for death can feel longer than life itself.

Mohammad Iqbal was arrested in 1998 and sentenced to death in 1999, when he was just 17 years old. For over 20 years, he lived on death row in a Pakistani prison, where time crawled and hope seemed out of reach.

In this video, we explore what life looks like inside death row:

• How do inmates survive emotionally and mentally?
• What changes in a person after two decades behind bars?
• What does it mean to be forgotten by the world?

Iqbal’s death sentence was commuted in 2020 due to his juvenile status at the time of sentencing, and having already served more than a life term, he was finally released. This is the story of a man who waited for death—and got a second chance at life.