Imran Khan strongly condemns the illegal arrests & abduction of his party workers & leaders

LAHORE, May 17 (SABAH): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has strongly condemned the illegal arrests and abduction of his party workers and leaders.

In a statement issued on twitter on Wednesday, Imran Khans aid that our Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Secretary General Asad Umar have also been incarcerated for more than a week now.

Also, despite court orders journalist Imran Riaz Khan has not been presented in court and there are confirmed reports of torture against him, he claimed.

“I demand immediate release of all our female leaders, workers and the female family members of our leaders and workers” he said. How could Shehrayar Afridi’s wife be jailed? This is purely to spread terror amongst the people so that they don’t stand up for their constitutional rights, Imran Khan said.

“I am deeply disturbed after hearing of Dr. Shireen Mazari, the former Human Rights Minister’s treatment and her daughter being physically assaulted by male police officers” he said.

Imran Khan said that after the IHC granted bail to Dr. Mazari and Senator Falak Chitrali they were abducted from within Adyala Jail and taken to thana secretariat where Dr. Mazari’s screams were heard.

He said that the video evidence coming forward of the barbaric treatment meted out to our female supporters is reprehensible.

Imran Khan said that many of our female MNAs, supporters, and workers are being held in jails across Pakistan under inhumane conditions, vulnerable to police excesses.

He said that these abductions and the treatment being meted out to women by this fascist government are not only grave human rights violations but are strictly against our culture and Islamic teachings.

Imran Khan said that all these women must be immediately released. Their continued incarceration is unconscionable. I am also raising this with International Human Rights Organizations, he said.