- Prosecutor says Imaan, husband threatened int’l groups’ safety.
- People accompanying them to even be arrested: Raja Naveed.
- Alleges Imaan’s husband Abdul Hadi abused, slapped a policeman.
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) on Tuesday authorized a three-day bodily remand of outstanding lawyer and human rights activist Imaan Mazari and her husband, handing over the couple to the police in a case pertaining to alleged interference in authorities operations.
The couple was offered earlier than ATC Decide Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain at present following their arrest by Islamabad police a day earlier in a case registered at Aabpara Police Station.
The case pertains to an incident involving the duo’s scuffle with visitors police within the federal capital after they tried to take away the highway blockades positioned for the visiting England crew’s visitors protocol final week.
The FIR states {that a} route was fastened for worldwide groups’ — which benefit from the standing of a state visitor in order to guard them in opposition to any terror assaults — commute at Faisal Avenue when Imaan eliminated the limitations and provoked the folks there.
The suspect, the FIR provides, known as for the barrier to be eliminated and began shouting when one other lawyer — her husband Abdul Hadi, — additionally arrived on the scene and began hurling threats in direction of the police.
Imaan’s husband abused and slapped a policeman, reads the FIR.
Throughout the listening to at present prosecutor Raja Naveed requested the court docket to grant 30-day remand of the suspects.
Underscoring the importance of worldwide groups’ visits, the official stated that the police tried to cease the suspects who repeated their unlawful actions and breached the safety.
Imaan and Hadi threatened the safety of worldwide groups, remarked the prosecutor whereas noting that two people accompanying the couple have been additionally to be arrested.
He additionally identified that it was essential to have the video be forensically analysed.
The court docket then authorized a three-day bodily remand of the suspects who have been handed over to the police.
The couple’s arrest, termed state fascism by Imaan’s mom and former minister Shireen Mazari, has been condemned by the Human Rights Fee of Pakistan (HRCP).
Lamenting their arrest on “obscure expenses of making a safety danger”, the HRCP stated that each have been “well-respected human rights defenders whose arbitrary arrest is symptomatic of the quickly shrinking area for activists in Pakistan”.