Pakistani socialist leader Farooq Tariq arrested - again!
From the Labour Party of Pakistan
Dear comrades!
Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, along with ten party members, was arrested once again on Thursday (27 September 07), outside Lahore High Court, the third time in the last three months.
He was under ground for the last three days as the police were looking to arrest him. On Thursday he surfaced for a while to participate in lawyers' protest rally against General Musharraf. The LPP fully participated in this rally to protest against the filing of nomination papers by General Musharraf for a second presidential term.
The moment Farooq tried to board his car after the termination of rally at about 12 noon, a contingent of Punjab police encircled him and arrested him without showing any arrest warrants. They also arrested ten other party members, most of them brick kiln workers, who were peacefully dispersing after the rally. Police drove them all to Old Anarkali Police Station and detained them there.
When party comrades, friends and journalists reached the police station to meet detained comrades they were refused the right to see them. Police also refused to reveal details of the arrests. After four hours, the police allowed them to see the arrested comrades, and by then they registered a case against them under Terrorist Act and 16 MPO.
Meanwhile in the afternoon, members of the LPP held a protest demo in front of Lahore Press Club to condemn the arrests and demanded immediate release of the arrested comrades and all political prisoners.
According to police the arrested comrades will be produced before the anti terrorist court on Friday. Human Rights activist Asma Jehangir, Rabeya Bajwa advocate and Abid Saqi advocate will defend
Farooq Tariq and the ten other arrested party comrades.
Following are the names of the comrades arrested by police:
Farooq Tariq
Javed Masih
Sabir Hussain
Waris Masih
Mohammad Munir
Mohammad Sadiq
Mohammad Iqbal
Allah Ditta Masih
Mohammad Hassan
Allah Ditta
Qasim Ali
Khaliq Shah on behalf of the LPP
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