A twitter & FB thunderclap will start May 1, 2014 at 12 am. It is in support for Amina Masood Janjua and aggrieved families and for their release and that of others and continued support in the struggle for peace.
You will see it come from my twitter account @SusanMarie_NY, everyone needs to become a part of this. https://www.thunderclap.it/my/overview?locale=en#pending_thunderclaps
See below:
PRESS RELEASE: Amina Masood Janjua, leading human rights campaigner arrested amid police violence in Pakistan
28 April 2014
(London, UK) CAGE has received reports that leading human rights campaigner Amina Masood Janjua has been arrested, for the second time, by Pakistani security forces. In what appears to have been a heavy handed-police response to a peaceful protest, Mrs Janjua was recorded being forced into a vehicle by several journalists, who were then themselves the targets of police attacks.
The wife of Masood Janjua, who was disappeared in Pakistan in 2006, Amina rose to prominence after founding The Defence of Human Rights Trust where she has investigated her husband’s disappearance, as well as those of many others.
Amina has worked tirelessly for many years in partnership with many individuals and organisations, in the hope that she will gain justice not only for her family, but the 700 families that she assists.
Asim Qureshi, Research Director of CAGE, said:
"I remember Nawaz Sharif (President of Pakistan) going out of his way to support Amina during his election campaign. That she has now been arrested under Mr Nawaz’s watch is not only cause for concern, but a major breach of the trust he was given. All people of conscience should call on the Pakistan authorities to immediately release her."
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NOTES:
1. CAGE
(formerly known as CagePrisoners) is an independent advocacy
organisation that works to empower communities affected by the War on
Terror and to highlight abuses of prisoners’ rights.
2. To learn more about Amina Masood Janjua and the cases that she has represented, please read the following:
- Contact: Mr Amandla Thomas-Johnson
- Phone: +(44) 207 377 6700
- Email: press@
cageuk.org - Web: www.cageuk.org
CAGE
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3XX
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