HYDERABAD, June 18: A large number of people, under the banner of the Shehri Ittihad and the Councillor Ittihad, New Saeedabad, staged a protest demonstration and a sit-in outside the press club here on Tuesday.

They were protesting against the arrest of Pir Inamullah Shah Rashidi by the SHO, New Saeedabad, and registration of a false case against him and the attack on three journalists of Hala.