Source: Teeth Maestro
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), along with other civil society groups, will be observing December 10 (Universal Human Rights Day), as black day. The idea is to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the government against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on media and free expression; arrests of thousands of lawyers, journalists, students, teachers and human rights activists; charging lawyers and others under the Anti-Terrorism Act; house arrest of 35 judges of superior courts; and generally the people suffering terrorism; both at the hands of non-state militants and state agents.
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Tags: Emergency, human rights, Politics
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1 ScaredPakistani // Dec 10, 2007 at 4:00 pm
who really cares ? who is right and wrong ? Everybody is after the bloody power no matter what it takes ….
2 ScaredPakistani // Dec 10, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Those who have it are trying to increase it … those who don’t have it are desperately trying to get it … who the hell cares about an ordinary Pakistani ? Nobody …
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