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Nine years after being imprisoned, Baba Jan and his last three imprisoned comrades have been released. Nine years during which we have more than once feared for his life, nine years punctuated by legal battles and vast mobilizations in Pakistan, as well as multiple campaigns of international (…)
The degree of tacit sympathy — explicitly fostered by the state — that has flooded the airwaves for people who slaughtered or tried to slaughter their fellow Pakistanis is rarely afforded to those engaged in nonviolent struggles for people’s rights. There are few cases which illustrate this (…)
February 14, 2020
OPEN LETTER TO THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
MR. ANTONIO GUTERRES
BY JAHAN ARA AND NAZNEEN
We, sisters of Baba Jan, a political prisoner, request you to take attention of the unjust imprisonment of 14 activists from Hunza Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, (…)
Family members, political activists march on KKH for justice; threaten to extend protest to other parts of GB if prisoners not freed.
Protesters march on KKH at Aliabad Hunza on July 14, 2019, for release of political prisoners.
HUNZA: Scores of protesters marched on Karakorum Highway (KKH) (…)
Family members, political activists march on KKH for justice; threaten to extend protest to other parts of GB if prisoners not freed .
Protesters march on KKH at Aliabad Hunza on July 14, 2019, for release of political prisoners.
HUNZA: Scores of protesters marched on Karakorum Highway (KKH) (…)
In spite of the urgent call from his family, friends and a broad international support, Baba Jan has not been transferred to an Islamabad well-equipped hospital for a thorough examination of his health situation, while he was feeling strong chest pain.
He is presently at Gahcooch Jail (…)
Message from Baba Jan
’I would like to thank everyone who has signed the petition or attended a protest for our release. I am encouraged to note the valour with which a new generation of community leaders and activists are fighting. I ask you to remain steadfast, dedicated to the community, (…)
Progressive activists from Gilgit-Baltistan and the rest of the country have been voicing concerns for jailed Awami Workers Party leader Baba Jan’s deteriorating health over the last few weeks.
A well-known and popular political figure in the Hunza region, Baba Jan was jailed for allegedly (…)
Baba Jan is the longest serving political prisoner in Gilgit Baltistan. For seven years Baba Jan has been unfairly kept in jail on trumped up charges. Currently, he has heart issues and is being denied medical treatment. We demand that he be shifted to Islamabad so he can avail medical (…)
Languishing in Gahkuch jail in Gilgit-Baltistan, progressive political leader Baba Jan’s appeal to the prime minister of Pakistan to allow medical examination for cardiac disease has gone unnoticed.
Baba Jan is undisputedly the most popular political leader of Gilgit-Baltistan; he is serving (…)
GILGIT
Awami Workers Party Gilgit-Baltistan (AWP-GB) expresses reservation about the shifting of its imprisoned leader Comrade Baba Jan to the Combined Military (CMH) Hospital Gilgit.
We reject rumours being spread through social and local media about any assurance from FCNA commander or (…)
GILGIT: The family members and political activists have assailed the Gilgit-Baltistan government for not granting permission to the imprisoned Awam Workers Party leader Baba Jan to travel to Islamabad for a medical checkup.
[Baba Jan is feeling chest pain for the last few weeks and the (…)
Baba Jan life under threat; bring Baba Jan to an Islamabad hospital for complete medical check up!
Baba Jan is feeling chest pain for the last few weeks and the authorities are refusing to take to him Islamabad for medical check up and for angiography. There is no facility of angiography at (…)
GAHKUCH: Baba Jan, the incarcerated senior leader of Awami Workers Party Pakistan, is feeling a pain his chest and might need angiography.
According to party sources, Baba Jan has been complaining about a pain in his chest. Gahkuch based reporters have said that Baba Jan has been referred for (…)
The National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser has rejected an adjournment motion moved by Ali Wazir, the lone leftist member from North Waziristan, to debate Baba Jan’s case in the lower house of Parliament. The motion was also signed by Pashtun Tahafooz Movement (PTM) leader MNA Mohsin Dawar (…)
HUNZA: The mother and family members of Baba Jan, incarcerated progressive leader, staged a protest demonstration in Nasirabad village of Hunza as the motorcade of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar reached the valley on a sight-seeing visit.
On seeing the women, and children, with placards standing on (…)
On Monday 16th October, Baba Jan review petition at Supreme Court of Gilgit Beltistan was to be heard. On the day, all the lawyers from the valley were on strike on the issue of appointment of the judges. The executive of the valley is appointing the judges instead of a judicial commission as is (…)
Baba Jan’s review plea: GB’s top court urged to rectify ‘floating error’ in verdict
August 18
Editor
The top court of Gilgit-Baltistan has adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by Baba Jan, a prominent Leftist political leader of GB, in the court to review its verdict.
On Wednesday, (…)
The European Parliament has adopted the following joint resolution, presented by members of various parliamentary groups, dealing mostly on the situation of human rights defenders and the death penalty in Pakistan. In point D, it refers, among other cases, to the condemnation of Baba Jan: (…)
We described the struggle of of Baba Jan in the pages of this review, l’Anticaptaliste , in November 2014. We were already mobilizing at the time to obtain his release. In fact, the international solidarity campaign began in 2012: there were high points and times when the campaign was not so (…)
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