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Update @ 2320: Details of the stand-off between detained journalists & police
Via e-mail from Urooj who was one of the journalists arrested at the peace rally outside the Karachi Press Club this afternoon, and who has now been released along with all detainees from both the Docks Police Station and the Clifton Police Station in Karachi, where below she sheds light on why the stand-off took…
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Update @ 2213: All journalists at Docks Police Station – released
Via blackberry from Dr. Awab who mentions that Urooj Zia – one of the journalists who were arrested and detained earlier this afternoon has been released. I have just spoked to Urooj who confirms the same and mentions that the earlier stand-off between the journalists and police over 4 journalists whose names were not on…
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Update @ 1854: HRCP delegation visits detained journalists at police stations
A delegation of the HRCP (Human Rights Commission of Pakistan), comprising of Mr. Iqbal Haider, Secretary General, Mr. Jawed Iqbal Burqi, Advocate HRCP and Mr. Abdul Hai, Field Officer, HRCP are currently visiting all the police stations where the journalists were detained, earlier this afternoon.
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Update @ 1826: An eye witness account of arrests & baton charge on journalists
Via e-mail from Anis Haroon who relates who journalists and his friends from Public Relations at various news agencies were first baton charged by the police and then arrested when they attended a peace rally outside the Karachi Press Club, earlier today at 1500: The print and electronic media had given a call for procession…
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Update @ 0539: Images from Nov 10th peace rally at Downing Street in London
The following images were sent in to us by the People’s Resistance in London where over 1,000 people rallied last Saturday outside the UK Prime Minister’s residence on Downing Street to demand that Britain uses their influence in Islamabad to pressurize Musharaff to lift his martial law, hold elections, remove media curbs and release all…
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Update @ 0503: Free and Fair Election Network on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron
Via e-mail from the Thematic Group Coordinator — Afreina Noor, at the FAFEN’s (Free and Fair Election Network) Secretariat in Islamabad, who sent in the text of their position paper on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron. FAFEN is a coalition of thirty leading Pakistani civil society organizations and was established in 2006 to observe…
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Update @ 0444: URGENT Notice to rally organizers & participants
We have seen several calls to take children to rallies and demonstrations. We urge every reader to leave children well supervised at home. This is a dangerous practice and should not be done
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Update @ 0319: Peace rally at Pakistan Consulate in New York – Nov 14
Via an e-mail from the South Asian Law Student Association, comprising of students from the CUNY (City University of New York) School of Law, Columbia University, Hunter College and students from New Jersey schools who are holding a student-organized peace rally this week, on November 14th (Wednesday) outside the Consulate General of Pakistan in New…
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Update @ 2017: United Teachers’ Forum stage vigil at Karachi University tomorrow
Via e-mail from Dr. Riaz at the University of Karachi: Please join us at a Vigil to show our solidarity with those arrested since November 03, 2007, on Tuesday November 13 (tomorrow), 1pm outside Audio Visual Centre (near the Dean of Art’s Office) at Karachi University which is being organised by United Teachers’ Forum. Everyone…
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Update @ 1139: First hand account of leading lawyer jailed at Sabzazar Police station
The following is a first hand account of being jailed at the Sabzazar Police Station, via e-mail coming in from Dr. Parvez Hassan who is an eminent lawyer that was arrested by the Pakistani security forces on November 5: They herded lawyers in the police bus, about 35 of us. I knew nothing about where…
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Update @ 2103: Joint Indo-Pak Peace Network call for removal of martial law
The joint Indian-Pakistan Peace Network have issued a statement expressing deep concern about the imposition of emergency in Pakistan: “The Diaspora of India and Pakistan, in particular the citizens of Pakistan living in Canada, are deeply saddened and gravely concerned on the imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan by General Pervez Musharraf. We…
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Update @ 2013: Police raids, more arrests and websites blocked
Via an IPS journalist and one of our SMS reporters on the ground: – The central leader of the Communist Party of Pakistan — Jam Saqi, was away while police raided his house in Hyderababad – A heavy police contingent is visible outside the Karachi Press Club while PPP activists Saeed Boota, Anis Fatima and…
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Update @ 1107: Footage from the Pakistan peace rally in Paris yesterday
On Saturday, over 100 high-spirited students and members of the Pakistani community in Paris braved cold winds in Paris to demonstrate in favor of the restoration of the fundamental rights of the citizens of Pakistan and the Pakistani lawyers. The student organizers estimate that their rally delivered their message to over 4,000 tourists who had…
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Update @ 0942: National Party’s General Secretary is targeted by Pakistani Government
Via e-mail from Umar Farooq with the People’s Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens: Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, General Secretary National Party, was sent on judicial remand to Landhi District Jail on November 8, 2007. Since hen…
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Update @ 0049: Support for non-PCO judges under pressure
Via e-mail from Beena on supporting those judges who have not taken oath under the new PCO and are being pressurized by the current regime to do so: Justice (r.) Wajihuddin told some visitors at his Karachi residence on Sunday that the judges are under tremendous pressure to take oath. One of the Sindh High…