Marked for violence: ‘PAT workers targeted mercilessly’
PAT releases its report Human Rights and the Year 2014
LAHORE:
More than 25,000 workers of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek faced state violence and were kept in illegal confinement between June 17 and August 31, the PAT has said in its report Human Rights and the Year 2014, released on Friday. The report says police registered false cases against 4,000 PAT workers and subjected them to “the worst kind of torture”. The PAT spokesperson said no independent investigation has taken place of the Model Town incident so far. “The government continues to follow its policy of violence and torture and has rejected all offers to hold talks.” He said toxic teargas had been used against PAT workers in Islamabad and they had been shot at. The spokesperson said when the police ran out of detention cells to hold PAT workers they kept them in police vehicles for over 18 hours without food or medical treatment.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2014.
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