QUETTA, July 30: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Balochistan chapter, staged a demonstration against the extra-judicial arrests of political activists and demanded that all detainees be tried in a court of law. The protesters assembled in the front of the press club on Saturday and chanted slogans against the government and intelligence agencies and demanded that arrested persons be released immediately. Speaking on the occasion Malik Zahoor Ahmed Shahwani vice-chairperson of HRCP Balochistan claimed that some of the detainees freed had informed the commission that they were tortured in the cells.

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