Quetta:
Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Tuesday allowed the family of the detained activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch to visit her in prison.
A bench with two members consisting of Justices Rozi Khan Barraich and Shaukat Ali Rakhshani heard a petition filed by her sister, Nadia Baloch, who challenged her detention. The court accepted the petition and issued messages to the relevant authorities and gave them a week to provide case information.
Dr. Baloch was arrested in accordance with section 3 of the Public Order Regulation (MPO), which her lawyer claimed, violated constitutional rights. The court found the case worth reviewing and approved a request that enabled her family and legal adviser to meet her at the District Prison in Quetta.
Dr. Baloch, the largest organizer of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), was taken into custody with her several followers after a clash with police on Sariab Road near Balochistan University in Quetta last Friday.
Police, in response to the stone pelvis of the BYC demonstrants, used tear gas, water cannons and glossy shots to spread them. BYC accused police of using “excessive strength against protesters and killed three people and wounded dozens”.
However, the provincial government spokesman Shahid Rind rejected the allegations in which he stated that the protesters resort to stone pesting and unprovoked violence and injured several police officers, including a female constable.
Then Dr. Baloch, who led the protest, a call for a closing strike over the province. In the little hours on Saturday, Dr. However, Baloch arrested with 17 other protesters – 10 men and seven women.
Meanwhile, the Sindh government withholding the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Sammi Deen Baloch and four others in 30 days in the maintenance of the public order (MPO) are leading the group’s protest in Karachi.
