HYDERABAD, Dec 15: The speakers at a demonstration, staged by Pasban here on Saturday, demanded the Farooq Shidi self-immolation case should be tried in an Anti-Terrorism Court.

Pasban staged the demonstration outside the office of the Hyderabad regional police officer (RPO) to protest against the Thatta police, whose highhandedness, according to the organization, had led the young labourer, to commit self-immolation.

Farooq died in Karachi on Dec 11 after he committed self-immolation in Thatta on the Eid day to protest against the alleged atrocities of the Thatta police.

Speaking at the rally, Hyderabad district Pasban president Mohammad Hussain Khan, Thatta district president Ahsan Ali Jakhro and the others said Thatta had become a police state and its residents were feeling helpless.

They alleged the Thatta police had repeatedly tortured Farooq, which had led to his self-immolation.