HRCP Reports 24 Christians Missing In 40 Days
HRCP Reports 24 Christians Missing In 40 Days: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has disclosed that twenty-four men went missing from Youhanabad, a Christian colony in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in a span of 40 days. Ten of them were allegedly picked up on March 30th and April 15th, while 14 others were purportedly apprehended on May 8th.
A fact-finding team headed by HRCP Sindh Vice-Chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt and comprising Abdul Hayyi, Nida Tanweer, Saeed Baloch, Sheikh Majeed and Qazi Khizar told that cars without number plates surrounded the area, plain-clothes men barged into the houses late at night to search them and took away young men with them.
The report stated that the 24 men who were allegedly picked up on March 30, April 15 and May 8 were taken from an area that falls under District East, but a few days later they were found in seven different police stations of District West.
And when the HRCP approached the police stations, they were told that no raid was conducted in Youhanabad.
The report claimed that the 14 men allegedly picked up from Youhanabad on May 8th were found jailed in 6 different jails in District West on May 15. The report claimed that all the men were later shifted to different jails after they were tortured and interrogated by law enforcement agencies in false cases against them.
HRCP officials said that whenever raids are conducted, female searchers must also be present in order to respect the privacy of the family, especially women. “It is the right of the family to know the whereabouts of their loved ones, and they must not be mistreated for asking basic questions. These arrests were made without any warrants, and we strongly urge for them to be made legally.”
Safina Javed of the Peace and Development Organization (PDO) said it took more than two months for the incident to come to light, which shows that the community is terrorized.
HRCP has urged the Sindh IGP and the chief justice to look into these cases and help recover all those who are either in jails under false cases or are still missing.
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