Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, has strongly condemned the recent arrest of Baloch rights leader Mahrang Baloch and the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by Pakistani security forces in Quetta.
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Paank, the human rights department of the Baloch national movement, criticized the arrest of Baloch rights leader Mahrang Baloch and the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by Pakistani security forces in Quetta.
Hakeem Baloch, a member of the Baloch National Movement's Foreign Committee, strongly criticised the arrest of Mahrang Baloch and the lamented human rights violations in Quetta after the Pakistani forces shot dead five protesters during a 'peaceful protest'.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) shared the details of her arrest on X and said the bodies of the slain youth, which were at the protest site, have also been taken into custody.
Paank condemns the arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of Beebagr Baloch and his brother Hammal Baloch, who is being held at Bijligar Tana, Quetta, and Ilyas Baloch, who is now being imprisoned at Huda Jail, Quetta.
Baloch protestors, who had been demanding to identify the dead bodies of their relatives, forcefully entered the civil hospital in Quetta and took away a number of corpses from the hospital morgue.
The relatives had assembled to identify bodies brought in by security forces. The violence erupted when families of forcibly disappeared persons, along with human rights activists, attempted to enter the hospital to view the bodies, The Balochistan Post reported.
Enforced disappearances in Balochistan have become a frequent issue, with both forced abductions and extrajudicial killings increasing this year, further escalating fear among locals. Human rights organizations continue to demand an end to such practices, calling on Pakistani authorities to
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