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Husain Haqqani Statement in the Onine Protest Against Detention of Professor Muhammad Ismail Unmute Yourself with Ismail Sisters
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Husain Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan to USA and Director South Asia at the Hudson Insitute USA spoke at the online protest against the detention of the father of human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, Professor Muhammad Ismail, questioning the systematic inequalities in Pakistan, military rule, and misuse of judicial systems against human rights activists in Pakistan.
Gulalai Ismail, one of Pakistan’s boldest human rights defenders and a stalwart critic of Pakistan’s security services, succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her.
Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism, and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail.
On 2nd February,, a bail hearing ended with Mohammed Ismail, Ms. Ismail’s 65-year-old father, being led away in handcuffs. He faces charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which human rights defenders say are bogus and thinly veiled revenge against the family for embarrassing the state security services.
Professor Muhammad Ismail has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Rabia Mahmood, a human rights activist from Pakistan who has worked with several international human rights organisations spoke at the event describing the physical and mental ordeal the family had gone through in the past two years.
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Husain Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan to USA and Director South Asia at the Hudson Insitute USA spoke at the online protest against the detention of the father of human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, Professor Muhammad Ismail, questioning the systematic inequalities in Pakistan, military rule, and misuse of judicial systems against human rights activists in Pakistan.
Gulalai Ismail, one of Pakistan’s boldest human rights defenders and a stalwart critic of Pakistan’s security services, succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her.
Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism, and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail.
On 2nd February,, a bail hearing ended with Mohammed Ismail, Ms. Ismail’s 65-year-old father, being led away in handcuffs. He faces charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which human rights defenders say are bogus and thinly veiled revenge against the family for embarrassing the state security services.
Professor Muhammad Ismail has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Rabia Mahmood, a human rights activist from Pakistan who has worked with several international human rights organisations spoke at the event describing the physical and mental ordeal the family had gone through in the past two years.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voices4peaceanddemocracy/message
8 min