Tag: Musharraf
Posted on Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 01:43:00 AM EST
Tags: Pakistan, Musharraf (all tags)
Musharraf must go. Hundreds more lawyers were arrested in Pakistan yesterday. The photo is of lawyers shouting slogans as they are being hauled away in police vans and accompanies this Scotsman article describing the lawyers being beaten.
Lawyers protesting yesterday outside the courts in Karachi and Lahore were thrashed by baton-charging police amid clouds of tear gas. About 350 of them were rounded up in Lahore.
Lawyers, judges and human-rights activists appear to have been deemed the enemies of the regime, as the country slides towards totalitarian rule. Since Saturday, between 1,500 and 2,000 have been incarcerated.
"On the pretext of fighting militants, General Musharraf has mounted a coup against Pakistan's civil society," said Brad Adams, the Asia director at the campaign group Human Rights Watch. "It's clear it is aimed solely at keeping himself in power."
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Posted on Sat Nov 03, 2007 at 10:45:00 AM EST
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CNN is reporting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency and suspended the Constitution and imposed martial law.
- Emergency rule declared, constitution suspended, Chief Justice expelled
- Troops enter Supreme Court, court declares emergency illegal
- Ex-PM Benazir Bhutto said to be returning to Pakistan from Dubai
- Most media channels off the air due to an apparent media blackout
I haven't been following Pakistan much, what's going on?
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