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Nine years after being imprisoned, Baba Jan and his last three imprisoned comrades have been released. Nine years during which we have more than once feared for his life, nine years punctuated by legal battles and vast mobilizations in Pakistan, as well as multiple campaigns of international (...)
There is a progressive movement brewing in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) — Pakistan’s proverbial “Northern Areas”.
It is rising from the Hunza Valley, which lies under the shadow of the breathtaking Mount Rakaposhi in the Karakoram mountain range. Once an independent state at the cross-section of major (...)
PROTESTERS in Gilgit-Baltistan, demanding the release of political prisoners imprisoned since 2011, called off their agitation on Saturday after the region’s caretaker government assured them that the held individuals would be released. The protest, in Hunza’s Aliabad area, lasted for six days (...)
With elections due in Gilgit-Baltistan next month, this would be an opportune time for those who make decisions in Pakistan to study the northern region’s political situation, particularly the legitimate demands of its people. While the region opted for Pakistan soon after the partition of the (...)
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade
A Decade Jailed: Unforgotten Heroes of Gilgit-Baltistan
Baba Jan has spent years of his life in prison, framed along with (...)
The degree of tacit sympathy — explicitly fostered by the state — that has flooded the airwaves for people who slaughtered or tried to slaughter their fellow Pakistanis is rarely afforded to those engaged in nonviolent struggles for people’s rights. There are few cases which illustrate this (...)
February 14, 2020
OPEN LETTER TO THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
MR. ANTONIO GUTERRES
BY JAHAN ARA AND NAZNEEN
We, sisters of Baba Jan, a political prisoner, request you to take attention of the unjust imprisonment of 14 activists from Hunza Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, (...)
Family members, political activists march on KKH for justice; threaten to extend protest to other parts of GB if prisoners not freed.
Protesters march on KKH at Aliabad Hunza on July 14, 2019, for release of political prisoners.
HUNZA: Scores of protesters marched on Karakorum Highway (KKH) (...)
Family members, political activists march on KKH for justice; threaten to extend protest to other parts of GB if prisoners not freed .
Protesters march on KKH at Aliabad Hunza on July 14, 2019, for release of political prisoners.
HUNZA: Scores of protesters marched on Karakorum Highway (KKH) (...)
In spite of the urgent call from his family, friends and a broad international support, Baba Jan has not been transferred to an Islamabad well-equipped hospital for a thorough examination of his health situation, while he was feeling strong chest pain.
He is presently at Gahcooch Jail (...)
Message from Baba Jan
’I would like to thank everyone who has signed the petition or attended a protest for our release. I am encouraged to note the valour with which a new generation of community leaders and activists are fighting. I ask you to remain steadfast, dedicated to the community, (...)
Progressive activists from Gilgit-Baltistan and the rest of the country have been voicing concerns for jailed Awami Workers Party leader Baba Jan’s deteriorating health over the last few weeks.
A well-known and popular political figure in the Hunza region, Baba Jan was jailed for allegedly (...)
Baba Jan is the longest serving political prisoner in Gilgit Baltistan. For seven years Baba Jan has been unfairly kept in jail on trumped up charges. Currently, he has heart issues and is being denied medical treatment. We demand that he be shifted to Islamabad so he can avail medical (...)
Languishing in Gahkuch jail in Gilgit-Baltistan, progressive political leader Baba Jan’s appeal to the prime minister of Pakistan to allow medical examination for cardiac disease has gone unnoticed.
Baba Jan is undisputedly the most popular political leader of Gilgit-Baltistan; he is serving a (...)
GILGIT
Awami Workers Party Gilgit-Baltistan (AWP-GB) expresses reservation about the shifting of its imprisoned leader Comrade Baba Jan to the Combined Military (CMH) Hospital Gilgit.
We reject rumours being spread through social and local media about any assurance from FCNA commander or (...)
GILGIT: The family members and political activists have assailed the Gilgit-Baltistan government for not granting permission to the imprisoned Awam Workers Party leader Baba Jan to travel to Islamabad for a medical checkup.
[Baba Jan is feeling chest pain for the last few weeks and the (...)
Baba Jan life under threat; bring Baba Jan to an Islamabad hospital for complete medical check up!
Baba Jan is feeling chest pain for the last few weeks and the authorities are refusing to take to him Islamabad for medical check up and for angiography. There is no facility of angiography at (...)
GAHKUCH: Baba Jan, the incarcerated senior leader of Awami Workers Party Pakistan, is feeling a pain his chest and might need angiography.
According to party sources, Baba Jan has been complaining about a pain in his chest. Gahkuch based reporters have said that Baba Jan has been referred for (...)
The National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser has rejected an adjournment motion moved by Ali Wazir, the lone leftist member from North Waziristan, to debate Baba Jan’s case in the lower house of Parliament. The motion was also signed by Pashtun Tahafooz Movement (PTM) leader MNA Mohsin Dawar (...)
HUNZA: The mother and family members of Baba Jan, incarcerated progressive leader, staged a protest demonstration in Nasirabad village of Hunza as the motorcade of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar reached the valley on a sight-seeing visit.
On seeing the women, and children, with placards standing on (...)
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