31 peasants freed from private jails

As many as 31 bonded labourers, including women and children, were freed from the private jails of landlords Ayub Kalro and Ismail Halepoto near Umerkot on Saturday, on the orders of a local court.

An application was recently filed in the court stating that 25 people were being held in Kalro’s private jail and another six in the private jail belonging to Halepoto. The court ordered the police to raid the jails and release the peasants, upon which the Bodar Farm police freed 31 prisoners.

They were presented in court, where the judge asked them to live a free life and ordered the police to take action against anyone harassing them.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2020.