After hearing arguments from the plaintiff and the prosecutor, the judge gave the verdict, sentencing the offender to two years in jail. PHOTO: FILE
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced an activist of banned outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) to two years imprisonment.
The HuT member was arrested prior to the May 11 general elections for distributing pamphlets inscribed with hate speech against the army and the election commissioner.
The court was informed Muhammad Saeed, a resident of Banda Khan, Abbottabad was arrested on May 3 in the limits of Kabuli police station. He was then produced before an ATC judge.
After hearing arguments from the plaintiff and the prosecutor, the judge gave the verdict, sentencing the offender to two years in jail. During the proceedings, Saeed chanted slogans in the court room and demanded he should be hanged in protest against the verdict.
Over the years, HuT has attempted to penetrate the country’s security services. Last year, five security officials were convicted for having links with the organisation.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2013.
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I am the person about whom this news was published. So much for the justice served! I was the person who was seeking justice for my father through Express Tribune. http://tribune.com.pk/story/570892/i-am-the-son-of-a-murdered-judge/
Has the justice been served???
Wow...
I read HuT " hate speech against the army and the election commissioner"
Is it hate material?
late share that material and Let People Decide is it Hate Speech or Islamic Material..
BTW the title should not be justice served, should have been injustice done!!!!!
What a shame! As Orya Maqbool Jan also said, "Khilafat qaim karne ki awaz buland karne wale ko ghaddar kaha jata hai."
So much with freedom of speech where accounting the rulers and exposing their treachery result into prison... I think champions of democracy should shut up their calls of liberalism, freedom speech etc..
True face of democratic justice; where murderers like Raymond Davis and Shahrukh Jatoi are set free, the most corrupt are given executive positions and the one who calls for the implementation of Khilafah (Allah's hukm) are imprisoned!