Overworked: 61 peasants workers set free

HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court’s bench in Hyderabad ordered that 61 peasants and brick kiln workers who were kept in private prisons in Samaro and Umerkot should be set free. Khaju Mal from Umerkot had filed an application requesting the court to help. On the court’s order, the police conducted a raid and freed 43 men, women and children. 18 other were also freed.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 21^st, 2012.