- Lawyer arrested in wee hours of Sunday morning.
- Shireen Mazari phrases her arrest an “abduction”.
- Imaan additionally stated “unknown individuals” have been breaking into her house.
The Islamabad Police has arrested Imaan Mazari, a human rights lawyer, from her Islamabad residence within the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Tarnol Police Station personnel confirmed that the lawyer was booked for interference in state affairs, staging a sit-in, and resistance.
Shireen Mazari, Imaan’s mom and former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, spoke with journalists on the Islamabad district court docket, revealing that personnel in plainclothes locked their guard within the guardroom earlier than breaking into the home.
She added that they searched her room as nicely, and took away her telephone. “Round 20 folks entered the home. I noticed six feminine cops,” she complained.
The veteran politician questioned why their door was damaged in the course of the episode.
Mazari had earlier confirmed her daughter’s arrest on X, previously Twitter.
Policemen in plainclothes together with girls personnel and paratroopers took Imaan away after breaking down their entrance door, she stated.
The previous human rights minister termed the act “an abduction”, sharing that they dragged Imaan out after being requested who they got here for. In addition they took away their safety cameras, laptops, and cell telephones.
“They marched all around the home. My daughter was in her evening garments and stated let me change however they only dragged her away,” the ex-PTI minister wrote on the microblogging website.
Mazari added that the personnel dragged her away and didn’t even permit her to alter garments. All of this, she stated, was accomplished with none warrants or authorized procedures.
“State fascism,” she wrote, lamenting the therapy meted out to the mother-duo who stay by themselves in the home.
Earlier than her arrest, Imaan, herself, additionally posted an replace on X, sharing about “unknown individuals” breaking down their house cameras, banging the gate, and leaping over.
In the meantime, a former member nationwide meeting from South Waziristan, Ali Wazir, was additionally arrested by the Islamabad Police.
He, too, was booked for interfering in state affairs, the police stated.
The Human Rights Fee of Pakistan has condemned Imaan’s arrest and demanded her rapid and unconditional launch.
The organisation termed the Islamabad Police’s act “unacceptable”.
“The way by which the @ICT_Police broke into her house, allegedly with out a warrant, is unacceptable and factors to a bigger, extra worrying sample of state-sanctioned violence in opposition to folks exercising their proper to freedom of expression and meeting,” HRCP posted on X.