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Protesters demand release of missing persons |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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A large number of protestors demanded on Monday that the government ensure the release of Wahid Qambar, Fazul Karmi Baloch and Mohammed Iqbal Baloch, whose detention was been shown after they had been missing for a year. During that year they were allegedly in the custody of security agencies.
Qambar was picked up by personnel from security agencies in Tamp, Balochistan on March 14, 2007. After reportedly being kept at various torture camps, Qambar was officially shown on April 21, 2008, to be under the custody of the Punjpai police — 30 miles from Quetta. On the day after he resurfaced, however, Qambar was again handed over to another security agency in Quetta. Since then there had been no news of his whereabouts.
Another activist, Faiz Mohammed Baloch, who was also picked up along with Qambar and kept at torture camps, was released from Turbat jail.The protestors also urged human rights bodies to take the issue of missing Baloch youth to an international level on a humanitarian basis so that they could be released soon. |