US EditionPakistan detains leading Baloch rights activist: police
- Pakistan detained Mahrang Baloch, a leading female Baloch rights activist, during a sit-in protest where three protesters were killed, according to police.
- Mahrang Baloch campaigns for the Baloch ethnic group, alleging extrajudicial harassment and killings by the government.
- The protest demanded the release of detained group members, leading to Baloch's arrest and a crackdown by state security forces that left three dead.
- The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan stated that authorities must immediately cease force against peaceful protesters and release those arbitrarily detained.
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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…
BHC allows jailed Mahrang to meet family as BNP-M announces long march amid shutdown in coastal towns
Court also seeks details of cases against BYC organizer in a week, issues notices to respondents ‘I announce a long march from Wadh to Quetta, against arrest of our daughters and desecration of our mothers and sisters’: Mengal QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Tuesday allowed imprisoned rights activist Dr Mahrang Baloch to meet with her relatives while BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal announced a long march on March 28 against the arre…
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.
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DNyuzPakistan 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…
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