Pakistan: Further information on fear of torture/ill-treatment/possible prisoner of conscience/ health concern

Index Number: ASA 33/008/2008
Date Published: 7 March 2008
Categories: Pakistan

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Atizaz Ahsan, former SCBA president Tariq Mehmood and lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd have all been released from house arrest. The government has withdrawn security and police personnel who had been guarding their houses.