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NEWS & LETTERS, May 2002
Kids in Pakistani jailsI am sad to report from Lahore
that the police authorities have suddenly reneged on their reluctant
permission to activists for visiting children and women in jails. The police are now demanding a
five-year report of any organization that has been working in the jails,
insisting that only after a complete review will they allow activists to
continue their work in jails. This came suddenly and without
warning when the activists found that they could not visit jails pending
"approval" from authorities. If it were a genuine effort to monitor
the work of these activists and organizations, the concerned authorities would
have sought to work with them, instead of putting a stop to the valuable and
necessary efforts they are making for an enslaved segment of a
disastrously oppressed society. The refusal to allow activists
from concerned organizations such as AGHS Legal Aid Cell and the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan is a calculated effort to discourage their humanitarian
work which exposes the bestial cruelty of an inhumane system. —Hawa Bibi |
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