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[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨 Headline itself is a story 🚨🚨
.⁦@MahrangBaloch_⁩, who fought for Pakistan's disappeared men, now faces life in jail https://t.co/rJR7G1ALsG

[SILENT SCOPE @SILENTSCOP19218]

Freedom for @MahrangBaloch_ and all women and political leaders targeted by the Pakistani government!

[BBC Pashto @bbcpashto]

د بښنې نړیوال سازمان د پاکستان یوې محکمې له لوري ماه‌رنګ بلوڅ ته د عمري بند سزا اورل "د عادلانه محاکمې حق ته سپکاوی" ګڼلی، د هغې او ورسره ملګرو د "ژر تر ژره" خوشي کولو او پر هغوی د لګېدلو تورونو د لغوه کولو غوښتنه یې کړې ده.
د رپوټ تفصیل لپاره لېنک کېکاږئ: https://t.co/12HMk3Rnb9

[Nadia Baloch @NadiaBaloch99]

Over the last few days, government officials and their supporters have repeatedly claimed that Dr. Mahrang Baloch chose to boycott her trial and refused to defend herself.

This deliberately obscures what actually happened.

On 12 June, the authorities introduced a so-called faceless court system for these proceedings. Under that arrangement, Mahrang and the other accused were expected to face charges carrying life imprisonment without being able to properly communicate with their lawyers, without being able to see the witnesses testifying against them, and without any meaningful public scrutiny of the process.

The public was excluded. Journalists were excluded. Families were excluded.

The accused themselves were denied the ability to effectively confront the case being presented against them.

In response, Mahrang, Sabghatullah Shah Ji, their lawyers, and members of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee publicly objected. For days, they demanded an open trial. They did not ask for special treatment. They did not ask for immunity. They asked to see the evidence. They asked to see the witnesses. They asked for the proceedings to be conducted in a manner consistent with the most basic principles of justice.

They said repeatedly that they were prepared to face every allegation brought against them, but they would not accept a process in which a person could be sentenced to life imprisonment without being afforded the fundamental safeguards of a fair trial.

That position is now being dishonestly recast as a refusal to defend themselves.

It was the opposite.

Mahrang did not refuse a defence. She demanded the right to mount one.

The question is not why she objected to a process in which the accused could not properly communicate with counsel or confront witnesses. The question is why those conditions were imposed in the first place.

A state confident in its evidence does not need to hide its proceedings from public view. It does not need a system in which the accused, their lawyers, journalists, and the public are prevented from seeing what is happening inside the courtroom.

Mahrang’s objection was never to being tried.

Her objection was to being denied a fair trial while being told to call it justice.

#ReleaseBYCLeaders
#ReleaseMahrangBaloch

[Niazi @Faruqniazi]

سچ بولنے والے جیل میں ہیں، جو سچ نہیں بولتے وہ آزاد ہیں

[Adil Raja @soldierspeaks]

ماہرنگ بلوچ پاکستانی فوجی اسٹیبلشمنٹ کے لئے وہ آئینہ ہے، جس میں انہیں اپنا کا گھناونا چہرہ نظر آتا ہے ؛ اسی لئے جرنیلوں نے آئینہ قید کردیا، مگر ماہرنگ کی مدافعت عوام کے لئے ایک نظریہ بن چکی ہے، اور نظریہ قید نہیں کیا جاسکتا۔
عمران خان اس دلیل کی زندہ مثال ہیں!

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

This woman fought for her disappeared father - now she faces life in jail https://t.co/EL9irGH5yl

[Mahrang Baloch @MahrangBaloch_]

Before being sentenced to life imprisonment, Dr. Mahrang Baloch spoke from solitary confinement about resistance, human rights, and the future of Balochistan.

Read her recent interview:

https://t.co/MGAEDucLU9

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch
#MahrangSentenced

[Riccha Dwivedi @RicchaDwivedi]

Greta Thunberg draws attention to the life sentence handed to Baloch human rights activist Dr. Mahrang Baloch by a Pakistani court.

Mahrang took on Pak’s military establishment, long accused of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and kill-and-dump ops in Balochistan.

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch
#MahrangSentenced

[Mary Lawlor @MaryLawlorhrds]

Dr Mahrang Baloch #hrd has been a peaceful and steadfast defender of the Baloch people and against the cruelty of disappearances. Her own father was detained & found dead with signs of torture. Her brother too was detained . This life sentence must be quashed @PakUN_Geneva

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch
#MahrangSentenced

[ZEShan ⚫ @zeshmohmand]

کشمیری بھائی, مہرنگ بلوچ کے لیے آواز اٹھا رہےہیں!

یہی حل ہے, اب ایک ہونا پڑےگا, پچھلے 77 سال سے انہوں نے ہمیں تقسیم کیا ہؤا تھا, لیکن اب سب کو سمجھ آگئی ہے!!

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch
#UnitedNations #MahrangSentenced

[Olivier Beriault @OlivierBeriaul1]

🚨The apartheid regime called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" and threw him in a dark cell for 27 years!

Today, #Pakistan is pulling the exact same cowardly playbook by sentencing Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment. 1/3

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch
#MahrangSentenced

[Mariam Solaimankhil @Mariamistan]

Thank you @GretaThunberg for standing with Dr. Mahrang Baloch. Pakistan’s message is clear: extremists are negotiated with, but women who peacefully demand rights are sentenced to life in prison. As an Afghan woman, this hypocrisy is painfully familiar. I know the devastation Pakistan’s policies have inflicted across the region. The world must stop rewarding repression and start defending those who risk everything for freedom. #ReleaseMahrangBaloch @MahrangBaloch_ @SammiBaluch @hrw @amnesty @UN_Women @un @HNeumannMEP @FrontLineHRD @UNHumanRights

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

Pakistani rights activist Mahrang Baloch sentenced to life in prison https://t.co/anifb2dTXJ

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: Reacting to the life sentences given by Quetta’s Anti-Terrorism court to Baloch activists Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Jee on 22 June, Amnesty International said:

“This verdict, which is an affront to the right to a fair trial, demonstrates how Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are being cynically misused to silence peaceful dissent. The conviction and sentence followed an expedited secret trial conducted on jail premises, during which serious concerns were raised over international fair trial standards and due process. No direct evidence was presented linking Mahrang and Shah Jee to the alleged violence.”

Read more: https://t.co/2xcoxVq85x

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Mahrang Baloch

[Reuters @Reuters]

Pakistani rights activist Mahrang Baloch sentenced to life in prison https://t.co/fEYJBIiEoH https://t.co/fEYJBIiEoH

[The Balochistan Post @BalochistanPost]

گریٹا تھونبرگ نے ڈاکٹر ماہ رنگ بلوچ کی عمر قید کی سزا کو “انصاف کا قتل” قرار دے دیا

https://t.co/jQa9S2Pw5E

[پختون @Dimple1465]

Release Dr Mahrang

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Amnesty International:

Pakistan’s military regime is taking unjust actions against people demanding their rights.

The organization says that Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are being used to suppress peaceful dissenting voices.

[Sammy Baloch @SammyPullain]

Dr. Mahrang Baloch, a globally recognized human rights defender, named among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and BBC’s 100 Women, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by Pakistan’s military-controlled courts in a fabricated case following a faceless trial.

We urge the @UN , European Union, Canada, USA, human rights organizations, lawmakers, journalists, and defenders of democracy worldwide to demand justice for Dr. Mahrang Baloch @MahrangBaloch_

@StateDept @CanadaFP @SecRubio @MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre