Arrested HRCP activists sent to Kot Lakhpat Jail
LAHORE: As many as 54 human rights activists, educationists, intellectuals and journalists arrested in a raid at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) have been sent to Kot Lakhpat Central Jail after police lodged an FIR against them.
The arrested activists were meeting to discuss the post emergency situation in the country and the impact of the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) 2007 and curbs on print and electronic media. Model Town division Superintendent of Police (SP) Imran Ahmar led a raid into the HRCP office and arrested the activists.
They were taken to the Model Town Police Station lock up where their relatives and friends had been awaiting their release till late night. Sources said that by 3.00am they were moved from the police station and sent to three different private places in Gulberg where they were kept under house arrest till Monday afternoon.
Later, the 24 women arrested and 30 men were taken to the Model Town courts and presented before a judicial magistrate for remand. An FIR was also lodged against them on the same day.
According to the FIR lodged under Section 16 of Maintenance of Public Order, and Section 146/147 and 188 of the PPC, police got information that people were staging a protest rally against the government and shouting anti-government slogans.
Following the information, police reached the spot and found them holding a public rally which was against the law, the FIR read. It further claimed that police warned them to stop their proceedings but they resisted and continued to shout anti-govt slogans.
The police arrested them all and lodged a case. The meeting was being held at the HRCP Secretariat on last Sunday. Initial investigations could not start because the public prosecutor was absent from the magistrate’s court.
Source: Daily Times
Date:11/6/2007
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