Document #1138374
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Please find attached an excerpt from the
Amnesty International report entitled Pakistan: Arrests of
Political Opponents in Sindh province, August 1990-Early 1992,
which provides information related to the above-mentioned
subject.
The report identifies two patterns of
political detention that it claims have emerged during the past two
years in Sindh:
the arrest of individual opposition leaders, often through the use of successive detention orders based on apparently unrelated criminal charges, and mass arrests of opposition supporters (June 1992, 8).The report states that numerous members of opposition political parties, including legislators, have been "subject to apparently politically motivated detention through repeated arrests" (Ibid., 13). It adds that political arrest has also taken the form of short-term detention and abduction by police, "apparently to prevent opposition leaders from participating in elections or parliamentary votes" (Ibid., 15). The report states that Amnesty International is concerned with the practice of repeatedly arresting persons and laying charges against them and by the fact that these detentions and charges have been prompted by the detainee's involvement in legitimate political activities and organizations within the opposition (June 1992, 24).
Additional and/or corroborative information
on this subject is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
Amnesty International. June 1992.
Pakistan: Arrests of Political Opponents in Sindh Province,
August 1990-Early 1992. (AI Index: ASA 33/03/92). London:
Amnesty International.
Amnesty International. June 1992.
Pakistan: Arrests of Political Opponents in Sindh Province,
August 1990-Early 1992. (AI Index: ASA 33/03/92). London:
Amnesty International, pp. 8, 13-29.
The Economist [New York]. 21
December 1992. "Rough Justice," p.5.