Human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari, who was granted bail in the sedition case earlier today, was re-arrested soon after her release from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Monday.
Islamabad police detained a human rights activist.
He was arrested in a case registered at Barakaho police station in the federal capital. He has been taken into custody to register a case against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Mazari’s lawyer said in a statement that the police did not inform him about the case in which Mazari was arrested.
The development comes after Islamabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday granted bail to Mazari and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir in a sedition case related to a controversial speech against state institutions. Who is
ATC judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain heard the application and granted post-arrest bail to Imaan and Wazir on sureties of Rs 30,000 each.
Both were arrested on August 20 and sent to physical remand after they were accused of making a controversial speech at a PTM public meeting.
After the PTM rally in the federal capital on August 19, two First Information Reports (FIRs) were lodged against Imaan and the minister at Tarnool Police Station and Counter Terrorism Department Police Station.
Both were booked on charges of sedition, obstructing government officials from performing their duties and damaging public property.
During today’s hearing, prosecutor Raja Naveed argued that more than 1,000 people were present in the rally where Imaan gave a controversial speech against state institutions.
He said that Imaan had accused the government officials of treason in the speech while the USB containing the controversial speech has not been received yet.
During the last hearing on August 24, Imaan and Wazir were produced before an ATC judge after a three-day physical remand and the prosecutor sought an extension of their remand.
The prosecutor told the court that Imaan Wazir’s voice matching and photography have been completed.
The investigating officer told the court that Imaan was given a piece of paper on which he made a speech.
“He needs to be questioned as to who gave him that paper.”
However, Judge Zulqarnain said that the decision will be made only on the basis of justice.
Both were sent to jail on 14-day judicial remand on Thursday.
FIRs
FIRs under sections 148 (riot armed with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly) for “interference in the affairs of the state” on the complaint of Tarnool Station House Officer (SHO) Myam Mohammad Imran after the PTM rally. was registered under 186 (preventing a public servant from performing public functions), 188 (disobedience to an order issued by a public servant), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 353 (preventing a public servant from performing his duties) assault or criminal force), 395 (punishment for robbery), Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) Sections 440 (mischief done with intent to cause death or injury) and 506ii (criminal intimidation).
Regarding maintaining the law and order situation during the PTM rally, the SHO said that he was present along with other policemen at Tarnool Phatak Chowk at 5 pm on Friday, when the rally – its NOC In violation of – started moving beyond the allotted space. to him
He said rally participants armed with sticks clashed with the police when law enforcers tried to stop the rally. Read the FIR, when the police stopped, the crowd blocked both the lanes of GT Road.
When the PTM leaders and supporters were asked to open the road, they attacked the police and threatened dire consequences and damaged vehicles and vandalized nearby shops, the SHO said.
The Second FIR was registered under PPC Sections 124A (sedition), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of the offense of prosecuting public objection).
