Pakistan detains leading Baloch rights activist: police

Systematic attacks & relentless crackdown on Baloch activists must end

Responding to the unlawful detention and harassment of Baloch activists in Quetta and Karachi over the past week in Pakistan, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International, said:“The Pakistani authorities’ relentless crackdown on Baloch activists over the last week and continued detention of several protesters and Baloch activists, including Mahrang Baloch, Sammi Deen Baloch, and Bebarg Zehri, speaks of a system…

The activist Mahrang Baloch has been in prison since Saturday and her sister has reported the poor conditions of detention on social media. In recent days, some families had tried to recover the bodies of their loved ones, but the Pakistani authorities said that they were the bodies of the Baloch terrorists responsible for the attack on the Jaffar Express train. The situation degenerated with gunshots fired at unarmed demonstrators who were dema…

Pakistan Continues to Arrest Baloch Leaders as Police Cracks Down on Protestors

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Leading Baloch human rights body, Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) central leader Sammi Deen and deputy organizer Lala Wahab were arrested on Monday as police cracked down on the protest in Karachi. World News | Pakistan Continues to Arrest Baloch Leaders as Police Cracks Down on Protestors.

Pakistan Jails Baloch Human Rights Activist

Pakistan has again arrested Mahrang Baloch, a prominent champion of human rights for the country’s ethnic Baloch minority, and barred her lawyer from visiting her in jail. “She was looking weak and stressed,” her sister Nadia Baloch told TIME on Monday after being allowed a few minutes with the activist in Quetta’s Hudda District Prison, where she has been held since Saturday. Mahrang Baloch’s lawyer was not allowed in; nor was the food her fami…

Pakistan’s War on Balochistan Has Reached a Point of No Return

The arrest of Dr. Mahrang Baloch, the leader of the peaceful Baloch protest movement, has set the entire province aflame.

Pakistan Charges Activist Mahrang Baloch With Terrorism, Sedition After Protests Turn Deadly

Baloch rights advocate Mahrang Baloch has been detained and accused of terrorism following a police raid on a protest in Quetta that left three dead.