Pakistan: Fear of torture/ill-treatment/possible prisoner of conscience

Index Number: ASA 33/026/2007
Date Published: 5 November 2007
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Pakistan

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Atizaz Ahsan, former SCBA presidents Tariq Mahmood and Munir A Malik and many other lawyers, including Ali Ahmed Kurd, Ali Ahmed Kurd, Ali Ahmed Kurd, Abrar Hassan, Ahsan Bhoon, and Abrar Hassan, have been arbitrarily arrested under laws allowing detention without charge or trial. Some of these laws are now in force as part of the emergency rule imposed by General Musharraf on 3 November 2007.