April 03, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 25, 1429

HYDERABAD, April 2: The Human Rights Development Organisation on Wednesday appealed to members of civil society, human rights bodies and general public to hold peaceful demonstrations to press the government for arresting the people who severely brutalized the policeman, Ali Hassan Solangi.

The leaders of the rights body, Jan Mohammad Soomro, women’s wing president Madam Romana Naz, Mehfooz Ahmed Memon and Mohammad Yousuf Gujjar said at a news conference at the press club that the policeman whose hands had been cut off at the wrists and acid had been poured on his face, was fighting for life in a hospital but police had not arrested even a single accused so far.

Mr Soomro said that his organisation would not remain a mute spectator and would continue its protest against this barbaric and ghastly act.

He appealed to the prime minister to take notice of the heinous crime and warned that if the tormentors of the poor policeman were not arrested, such incidents would continue to recur.

It was the duty of police to protect the life, honour and property of people but if policemen themselves were brutalised then who would protect people, he asked.