From: f43703a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp (SUPRATIC GUPTA)
Subject: Re: Pakistan: Arrests and Torture
Organization: Nagoya University Computation Center, Nagoya, Japan.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:39:24 GMT


In article <bala.727495476@pv7423.vincent.iastate.edu> bala@iastate.edu (M.K.Balasubramanya) writes:


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 | Written  5:20 pm  Jan 19, 1993 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general 
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 |Amnesty International
 |International Secretariat
 |1 Easton Street
 |London WC1X 8DJ
 |United Kingdom
 |
 |DATE: 19 JANUARY 1993
 |
 |     PAKISTAN: ARRESTS AND TORTURE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AND JOURNALISTS
 |
 |Amnesty International is concerned that at least 12 journalists covering
 |demonstrations by the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, and scores of leading
 |government opponents taking part in these demonstrations have been tortured or
 |ill-treated by police in Pakistan.
 |
 |	The organization received these reports following mass arrests of
 |thousands of political activists between 17 November and the end of December
 |1992.
 |
 |	Mariana Baabar of "The News" was reportedly beaten and verbally
 |assaulted during her brief detention in police custody in Islamabad. Salman
 |Taseer, a leading member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was moved to
 |four different police stations in Lahore after his arrest the same day. He was
 |reportedly hung upside down as a result of which he passed out several times.
 |In a petition to the Lahore High Court he said: "Two plain clothes policemen
 |sat on the [iron] bar and rolled the bar over my legs crushing the tissues.
 |The soles of my feet were beaten by rubber truncheons and batons till they
 |swelled like balloons".
 |
 |	Another PPP leader, Sohail Malik, was reportedly beaten in a police
 |station in Islamabad after his arrest on 22 December during a peaceful
 |demonstration. Police wearing boots reportedly kicked him in the testicles,
 |beat him repeatedly with electric batons and jumped on him.
 |
 |	Amnesty International is further concerned that several hundred
 |prisoners of conscience may have been among thousands of political activists
 |who were detained during the recent mass arrests in Pakistan. Most detainees
 |were released within hours or days. Others were either served with preventive
 |detention orders or charged with sedition, and were to be tried in special
 |courts whose procedures do not conform to international fair trial standards.
 |
 |	Twelve members of a local human rights group, the Human Rights
 |Commission of Pakistan, who were monitoring human rights violations by the
 |police during an opposition demonstration were arrested on 18 November and
 |held in an Islamabad police station for 30 hours. They were released after the
 |intervention of foreign journalists and diplomats.
 |
 |	Mass arrests of government opponents have occurred in Pakistan since the
 |government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif assumed office in November
 |1990. These took place in December 1990; in January, June, August and November
 |1991; and in May, November and December 1992. All these mass arrests have
 |involved the detention of hundreds of prisoners of conscience and torture of
 |dozens of detainees.
 |
 |* An Amnesty International report, PAKISTAN: Arrests and torture of political
 |activists, AI Index: ASA 33/01/93, was released today.


All pakistani supporter should first reply to these attrocities commited
in pakistan first. Second comment on what they ddid in bangladesh. Here
I am not defending India on Kashmir as I have no direct contact with
kashmir to support any camp. 

Indian soldiers are capable of all the aligations that are made against them. 
But surely Independence is not the solution.
--
With regards
 
SUPRATIC GUPTA
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