ISLAMABAD, June 23: Authorities released late on Friday night Defence of Human Rights chief coordinator Khalid Khawaja who was arrested on January 26 this year and accused of distributing hate literature outside a mosque.

Mr Khawaja spearheaded a movement for the release of missing persons.

Talking to Dawn after his release on the orders of Justice Sajjad Shah of the Lahore High Court, Mr Khawaja said that hundreds of people, including army men, clerics and scholars had been missing for years. He said they had never been tried in any court of law, adding that most of them had died in captivity.

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