Nine members of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) and Red Workers Front were allegedly abducted by the Rangers (a paramilitary unit) this week in Pakistan, for expressing their support to the Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement (PTM). The nation-wide movement against state repression and (...)
Many of the ‘missing persons’ are allegedly picked up by the country’s notorious intelligence services and tortured.
Raza Khan, a young social activist, vanished like many others without any trace . Many suspect the hands of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.
According to reports, Raza (...)
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports rising forced disappearances, rape and attacks on religious minorities.
An independent watchdog has expressed concern over Pakistan’s commitment to protecting human rights amid an increase in enforced disappearances, blasphemy-related violence and (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-37-011-2018 February 28, 2018
A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
PAKISTAN: Rights defenders remain at high risk
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw (...)
37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, Written Submissions February 25, 2018.
A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre.
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would (...)
The five-foot giant
IN a land with too few heroes, a single death can diminish us all.
With Asma Jahangir’s untimely demise, Pakistan lost a fearless warrior for human rights and dignity, while her friends lost a witty and loyal companion who stood by them in good times and bad. A born comic (...)
We at the People’s Solidarity Forum are sad, devastated and disturbed by the sudden death of Asma Jahangir, lawyer, human rights activist extraordinaire, and above all, an incredible human being. We demand that the prime minister and federal government announce three days of mourning and a state (...)
“What do you think of yourself? We will now tell you who are you,” were the clearly uttered sentences of the alleged captors of Islamabad-based known journalist Taha Siddiqui who luckily managed to escape from the custody of nearly a dozen abductors in at least two different vehicles when he was (...)
Pakistan has recently been placed on a special watch list for severe violations of religious freedom by the United States’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. This was done under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. A brief announcement by the United States’ State Department said that (...)
The news of the missing bloggers at the beginning of 2017 sent shockwaves through activist circles. No one was sure why sections of the state would abduct citizens for the ‘crime’ of posting satirical material online. After the recovery of the missing bloggers (against whom not a single charge (...)
Warnings of negative impact on ordinary people and damage to Pakistan’s international standing as 29 organisations are given two months to leave.
The Pakistani government has ordered a number of foreign charities and rights groups to close down their operations and leave the country by the end (...)
According to his friends, Raza, a critical thinker, was a soft-spoken man who never feared to speak against injustices.
A 37-year-old Pakistani activist, Raza Mahmood Khan is missing from Lahore since Saturday evening. Raza was last seen attending a debate meeting at Low-key Lokai, a (...)
Raza Khan with a copy of the One Million Signature Campaign against violence against women, Pakistan
On Saturday, peace activist Raza Khan, 37, went “missing” in Lahore shortly after he had organised a public discussion about the recent ‘dharna’ (sit-in) on the country’s capital that ended in (...)
LAHORE: Raza Khan, a progressive activist, has been missing from his home since Sunday.
He was last seen reportedly on Saturday at a public discussion on the rise of religious extremism in the country.
According to Raza’s fellow activist Raheem-ul-Haque’s public post on Facebook, Raza was also (...)
A growing crackdown against social media activists in the country ought to be a matter of deep concern to all right-thinking, law-abiding and democratic citizens.
The latest disappearances have been alleged by the PML-N itself, with no less a figure than former prime minister Nawaz Sharif (...)
On Monday 16th October, Baba Jan review petition at Supreme Court of Gilgit Beltistan was to be heard. On the day, all the lawyers from the valley were on strike on the issue of appointment of the judges. The executive of the valley is appointing the judges instead of a judicial commission as (...)
The Rangers’ refusal to allow Ahsan Iqbal entry into the NAB court premises was a comical situation par excellence. The interior minister and the supposed boss of the force was not only unaware of their deployment, but also faced the humiliation of a public display of insubordination. Iqbal’s (...)
Okara Military Farms The repression of tenants at Okara Military Farms continue for the last one and half years. On 21st September, Malik Salim Jakkar was arrested in Okara once again. He had spent most of the last two years (2015-2017) in jail and some two months back, he was released on (...)
Press release
HRCP condemns attack on Asma Jahangir’s associates in courtroom
Lahore, June 22: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned an attack by scores of lawyers on renowned lawyer Asma Jahangir’s associates inside a courtroom in the Lahore High Court.
In a (...)
The European Parliament has adopted the following joint resolution, presented by members of various parliamentary groups, dealing mostly on the situation of human rights defenders and the death penalty in Pakistan. In point D, it refers, among other cases, to the condemnation of Baba Jan: (...)
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