Pakistan: Urgent and transparent investigation needed into deadly crackdown on opposition protesters

By Amnesty International

Responding to reports of multiple deaths and mass detentions of protesters from the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad on 26 and 27 November, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International, said: “Yet again, protestors in Pakistan have faced a brutal and lethal crackdown shrouded in a callous opacity by […] The post Pakistan: Urgent and transparent investigation needed into deadly crackdown on opposition protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>

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