Quetta:

Himbited activist Mahrang Baloch has launched a hunger strike with other prisoners, her sister told AFP on Friday.

Mahrang Baloch, 32, was arrested last month on allegations of terrorism, sedition and murder.

Mahrang’s hunger strike “aims to condemn the police’s mismatch and the failure of the justice system to protect … prisoners,” said her younger sister, Nadia Baloch.

Nadia said the hunger strike was launched on Thursday after attempted “abduction” by one of the Baloch prisoners.

The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) said the inmate was beaten by security officials and taken from prison to an unknown place.

A security employee said the detainee was moved to another prison and denied any abuse.

BYC said that four other detained Baloch activists have joined the hunger strike. “All of them are peaceful political workers, imprisoned for raising their votes … Their only ‘crime’ is to organize peacefully in an environment saturated with state terror and violence,” the group said.