Reacting to the re-arrest of human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha just hours after they had been granted bail by the Supreme Court yesterday, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for South Asia, said:
"Imaan and Hadi's re-arrest dispels any pretence that the charges against them are anything other than a politically motivated attempt to punish them for their human rights work. Their case demonstrates once again the authorities’ willingness to weaponize the legal system against critical voices.
“These latest charges, brought against them for simply attending a peaceful protest, are not only absurd but an insult to their lifelong commitment to human rights.
“The Pakistani authorities must stop misusing the justice system to target Imaan and Hadi. They must be released immediately and unconditionally, with no further charges to prolong their detention. Imaan and Hadi should be free to meet their friends and family and to do the work they love – representing victims of human rights violations."
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The Pakistani authorities must stop misusing the justice system to target Imaan and Hadi. They must be released immediately and unconditionally, with no further charges to prolong their detention.
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ایمان مزاری اور ہادی علی چٹھہ کو جیل میں رکھنے کے لیے رات گئے عدالت کھل گئی!
اسلام آباد کی انسداد دہشتگردی عدالت میں پیش کر کے واپس اڈیالہ جیل منتقل کر دیا گی ایک بار پھر ا انصاف کا قتل کر دیا گیا
The extrajudicial killing of Ehsan Hassan, Hassan Rafiq and 20-year-old student Nadil Baloch is a brutal and devastating act. Their bodies were found together in Kuldan Gwadar after all three had disappeared earlier this year. Their families had spent months waiting, searching and hoping that their sons would return alive. Behind every dead body is a family whose life has been shattered. A mother waits for her son. A father keeps believing that his child will come home. A sister waits for the brother whose voice she has not heard for months. They live through endless uncertainty, carrying photographs, making inquiries and holding onto the hope that one day the door will open and their loved one will walk back home.
Baloch parents educate their children with their hard earned sacrifices. They spend years saving for their education, sending them to schools and universities and dreaming that their children will build a dignified and better future. They do not educate their children to receive their dead bodies. They do not sacrifice their entire lives so that one day they are forced to identify their sons in a morgue.
Nadil was only 20 years old. He was a student with an entire life ahead of him. Hassan and Ehsan also had families who waited for their return. Instead of celebrating their education, achievements and futures, their families are now mourning their deaths. This is the deepest cruelty inflicted upon Baloch people, first a loved one is taken away, then the family is condemned to months of unbearable waiting and finally the silence is broken by the arrival of a dead body. The pain does not end with the killing. It is transferred to the mother who will never hear her son’s footsteps again, the father who will carry the loss for the rest of his life and the sisters who will forever wait for a brother who can never return.
The international community cannot remain silent as Baloch people continue to face enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and the systematic destruction of civilian lives. The killing of Hassan Rafiq, Ehsan Hassan and Nadil Baloch must not disappear into another cycle of silence and impunity. The United Nations and international human rights bodies must urgently intervene, demand accountability and take concrete action to end the ongoing persecution and killings of Baloch people. Silence in the face of such grave abuses only allows impunity to continue.
#StopBalochGenocide
Global Human Rights Defence raised the issue of illegal detention of Baloch Yakjehti Committee leaders at United Nation's 63rd Session of Human Rights Council.
#ReleaseMahrangBaloch#ReleaseBYCLeaders
X CAMPAIGN: CALL FOR THE SAFE RELEASE OF SAFIA BALOCH
Safia Baloch, a 20 year old student from Killi Zayak Basima, Washuk, was forcibly disappeared from Quetta at around 1 AM on 23 August 2026. She is the daughter of Abdul Khaliq and her whereabouts remain unknown.
We appeal to human rights organizations, political and social activists, students, lawyers, journalists, families of forcibly disappeared persons, and people from all walks of life to join this campaign and raise their voices for the safe release of Safia Baloch.
DATE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2026
TIME: 8 PM to 11 PM
HASHTAG: #ReleaseSafiaBaloch
The Baloch nation stands united against any attempt by fake Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sarfraz Bugti and his allies to divide Balochistan.
We believe that such attempts to divide Balochistan are part of policies pursued by the Pakistani military establishment and are being advanced through the provincial government led by Sarfraz Bugti. The Baloch nation firmly rejects any such plan.
Balochistan is the identity of the Baloch nation. It represents our history, our culture, our heritage, and our motherland. It is not merely a piece of land. Those who seek to divide Balochistan or weaken the national identity of the Baloch people should understand that the Baloch nation will resist such plans through its collective political will.
The Baloch are a proud and conscious people with a history stretching back thousands of years. No political scheme can erase our history or identity. We will continue to stand for the unity, dignity, rights, and future of Balochistan.
Balochistan is our identity, our history, and our homeland and we will never allow that identity to be erased.
#Balochistan #BalochNation #BalochIdentity #BalochUnity
گوادر سے ملنے والے تینوں لاشوں کی شناخت۔۔" طالب علم نادل بلوچ ، دوسرے طالب علم احسان بلوچ، تیسرے حسن رفیق کے ناموں سے ہوئی ہے۔
تینوں نوجوان پہلے سے جبری لاپتہ تھے ۔۔۔
Another custodial killings of three Baloch youths by tyrant Pakistani state.
Already in custody, three young Baloch: Ehsan Baloch, Nadil Baloch and Hassan Rafiq have been brutally killed and dumped in Jiwani, Gwadar.
The tyrant Pakistani war crimes are still ongoing in Balochistan, every other day is witnessed with some new names and posters.
They are not just names and numbers but living human beings, which occupying Pakistani state enjoys to kill and dump.
#StopBalochGenocide
جیونی میں آج قابض فورسز نےتین جبری لاپتہ کی مسخ شدہ لاشیں پھینک دی جن میں ایک کی شناخت جبری لاپتہ احسان ولد حسن سکنہ جیونی کے نام سے ہوئی ہے جسے 22 جنوری 2026 میں جیونی سے قابض فوج نے جبرا لاپتہ کیا تھا۔
دیگر دو افراد میں ایک گوادر اور ایک تربت سے ہے
#StopBalochGenocide
The second mutilated body recovered from Gwadar has been identified as that of Ehsan Baloch. 17/9/26. It should be noted that Ehsan Baloch, a resident of Jiwani had been subjected to enforced disappearance from his home by ( the Pakistani Army ) on 22/5/26
#StopBalochGenocide
Kech: Body of Hassan Rafiq recovered with 2 other missing persons
Hassan Rafiq was reportedly picked up by Pakistani forces outside Turbat Jail immediately after his release on bail on August 24 & to enforced disappearance
#StopBalochGenocide#EnforcedDisappearances#Balochistan
Pakistan Army extrajudicially killed 3 people and dumped their bodies today in the Kuldan, Dannuk area of District Gwadar, #Balochistan. One of the victims has been identified as Ehsan Baloch, who was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces on January 22 from his house in Jiwani
I welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend the sentences of Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and order their release on bail.
After nearly eight months in prison, this is an important relief for Imaan and Hadi, their families and families of all those, specially forcefully disappeared ones, for whom Imaan dedicated her life.
PAKISTAN: The Supreme Court's order today granting bail to human rights lawyers Imaan-Mazari Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, and the suspension of their sentence, is a welcome step and a long overdue relief towards undoing immense injustice against them. Imaan and Hadi have been unlawfully imprisoned for nearly eight months as a result of their human rights work.
Amnesty International urges the authorities to immediately and unconditionally release them, quash their sentences and ensure that no new charges are brought against them to unlawfully deny them their right to liberty.
London: The International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF) welcomes the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision to grant bail to human rights lawyers and advocates Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, pending the Islamabad High Court’s final determination of their case.
IHRF notes with grave concern the shrinking space for dissent and the intensifying crackdown on human rights defenders in Pakistan, and condemns these practices in the strongest and most unequivocal terms.
The Foundation reiterates that the defence of fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial, must never be criminalised. IHRF calls on the Pakistani authorities to ensure that Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha receive a fair, independent, and expeditious hearing, and to halt the use of vague cybercrime and anti-state provisions to silence lawyers, journalists, and civil society.