Pakistan: Police crackdown continues, many Baloch leaders arrested
New Delhi: Leading human rights organization Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC)’s top leader Sammi Deen and deputy organizer Lala Wahab were among those arrested on Monday as police cracked down on their protest in Karachi, the media reported on Tuesday.
In a statement, BYC said that it cannot be silenced against the crackdown and condemned the barbaric arrest of leaders. It called police action as an act of “state terrorism” against the Baloch people.
“This cowardly and repressive move exposes Pakistan’s authoritarian brutality, where the state apparatus operates with impunity to crush all voices demanding justice and human rights. The Pakistani state’s fascist machinery, in collaboration with the Sindh police and the Pakistan Peoples’ Party-led provincial government, once again demonstrated its vicious intent to eliminate all forms of peaceful resistance,” it said.
The BYC urged international bodies to call out against the oppression of Pakistan on the Baloch territory as well their people.
Meanwhile, Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, criticised the crackdown on protesters in Quetta.
