World | Pakistan
Rights leader seeks world lawyers' help
The private Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged bar associations across the world to ask their governments to put pressure on Islamabad to release lawyers, judges and political workers arrested after the imposition of emergency rule in the country.
- By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
- Published: 23:39 November 9, 2007
Islamabad: The private Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged bar associations across the world to ask their governments to put pressure on Islamabad to release lawyers, judges and political workers arrested after the imposition of emergency rule in the country.
HRCP chairperson Asma Jehangir, who is also under house arrest in Lahore, has sent messages to associations of lawyers in major countries, calling for a forceful show of solidarity with Pakistani lawyers' struggle for establishing the rule of law. "The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. While terrorists remain on the loose and continue to occupy more space in Pakistan, senior lawyers are being tortured," she said in the message.
HRCP secretary general Syed Iqbal Haider told a news conference that the emergency was an assault on independent judiciary.
News Editor's choice
-
Ukraine leaders fight over Russian language
Violence erupts in Ukraine parliament over a bill to allow use of Russian language in courts, hospitals
-
CBSE: 100% success in many UAE schools
6,000 students from 53 schools meet grade expectations in examinations
-
'I can’t believe he is not going to come back'
Seventeen-year-old boy went missing in Dubai during a visit from Pakistan
