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[Safia Baloc @SafiaBaloch4b]

ایلم نا دڑد ء کس کنے آن برے سوج کہ
ایلم زندہ ءِ ولے ای گوہانُٹ تہ.
#ReleaseAsifAndRasheedBaloch

[Sara Baloch @Sara_Baloch88]

دروازے پر نظر جاتی ہے، ہر آہٹ پر دل دھڑک اٹھتا ہے... شاید تم واپس آ گئے ہو۔
آپکا انتظار اب صرف ایک انتظار نہیں، ہماری زندگی کا سب سے مشکل امتحان بن چکا ہے۔
#ReleaseAsifBaloch

[Nugra Baloch @Nugrah_Baloch]

"This country will be as we make it. Either a homeland or a memory. The land does not forget those who walk on it with bare feet. If you want to defeat me, you must kill me. And even then, you will not win, because I will become a story."

Mahmoud Darwish

[Nugra Baloch @Nugrah_Baloch]

"If your people are oppressed, and you are not fighting to help free the people, by your very act of inactivity you are against the people."

Kwame Ture

[Nadia Baloch @NadiaBaloch99]

Yesterday, 320 members of Pakistan’s civil society, including senior lawyers, human rights organizations, journalists, academics, activists, political leaders, and parliamentarians such as Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Senator Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, addressed an extraordinary letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Yahya Afridi, and the Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court, Justice Muhammad Kamran Khan Malakhail. Their message was unmistakable: courts do not remain neutral when they legitimise injustice through silence. Every act of judicial inaction has consequences, and every court is accountable for the precedents it allows to stand.

Today, that warning reaches the Balochistan High Court.

Our legal team has formally challenged the life sentences imposed on Dr. Mahrang Baloch and Sibghatullah Baloch. Those convictions did not emerge from a fair trial. They emerged from proceedings that excluded the accused from critical stages of their own case, denied them meaningful access to the lawyers they had chosen, prevented them from effectively confronting the evidence against them, and discarded the most basic guarantees of due process. A life sentence imposed through such a process does not strengthen the rule of law: it empties it of meaning.

This appeal is about far more than my sister and Sibghatullah. It asks whether constitutional rights in Pakistan still belong to every citizen, or whether they disappear the moment the state labels someone an enemy. It asks whether the Constitution binds the powerful as firmly as it binds the powerless, or whether due process has become a privilege reserved for those who pose no challenge to authority.

The Balochistan High Court now faces a choice that cannot be postponed or avoided. It can subject this judgment to the constitutional scrutiny that justice demands, or it can allow a conviction secured through a fundamentally defective process to stand. That choice will not only determine the fate of two prisoners. It will tell every citizen whether the guarantees written into Pakistan’s Constitution remain enforceable when they are needed most.

Courts do not defend the Constitution by invoking it. They defend it by applying it, especially when doing so is inconvenient. History will not remember the speeches made about judicial independence. It will remember what the judiciary did when confronted with a case that tested whether those words meant anything at all.
#ReleaseBYCLeaders

[Sammi Deen Baloch @SammiBaluch]

ایک ماہ سے جاری مسلسل ہراسانی کے بعد گزشتہ رات تقریباً ایک بجے قانون نافذ کرنے والے اداروں اور پولیس کے اہلکار، جو بائیس گاڑیوں میں سوار تھے اور جن کی تعداد تقریباً 60 سے 70 کے درمیان تھی، لیڈی پولیس اہلکاروں کے ہمراہ مجھے گرفتار کرنے کے لیے میرے گھر پہنچے۔

اس وقت میں گھر پر موجود نہیں تھی۔ اہلکاروں نے گھر کے دروازے توڑ کر زبردستی اندر داخل ہوئے اور تقریباً پانچ گھنٹے تک گھر کے اندر موجود رہے۔ اس دوران انہوں نے پورے گھر کی تلاشی لی اور گھر میں موجود تمام سامان، بشمول لیپ ٹاپ، کیمرے، موبائل فون، کتابیں، دستاویزات اور زیورات اپنے ساتھ لے گئے۔

اگر ان کا مقصد مجھے گرفتار کرنا تھا تو میری غیر موجودگی کا کنفرم کرنے کے باوجود میرے گھر کے دروازے توڑ کر داخل ہونے کی کیا مقصد تھا؟ میرے گھر میں موجود قیمتی اشیاء کو چوری کرنے، سامان کی توڑ پھوڑ کرنے اور ہمسائیوں کو تشدد اور ہراساں کرنے کا کیا مقصد تھا؟ کس قانون کے تحت یہ سب کچھ کیا جارہا ہے؟

میں متعدد بار یہ واضح کر چکی ہوں کہ اگر میرے خلاف کوئی مقدمہ ہے تو میں اسے قانونی فورمز پر سامنا کرنے کے لیے تیار ہوں۔ تاہم ایک پُرامن انسانی حقوق کے کارکن کے گھر پر رات کے اندھیرے میں دھاوا بولنا، ہمسایوں کو تشدد اور دھمکیوں کے ذریعے خوف��دہ کرنا، اور میرے خاندان کو ہراساں کرنا اس بات کی نشاندہی کرتا ہے کہ مقصد قانون کا نفاذ نہیں بلکہ مجھے اور میرے اہلِ خانہ کو ڈرانا اور خاموش کرانا ہے۔

میرے گھر کو پہنچنے والے تمام نقصان اور اس کارروائی کے نتائج کی ذمہ داری بغدادی پولیس، لیاری پولیس اور سندھ حکومت پر عائد ہوگی۔

[امیر بشخ @Ameeruk_]

@JournalistZia اس میں کوئی دورائے نہیں کہ پاکستان کے پاور الیٹ لارڈ ماؤنٹ بیٹن کے ہی اولاد ہیں۔

[Sahar Baloch @Saherb1]

I shared my comments with @TheContrapuntal about Mahrang Baloch and Sibgatullah sb’s imprisonment.

Please read this detailed investigative piece by @HazaranRahim and @sommulbaloch

https://t.co/r19Ey4m4g1

[Sammi Deen Baloch @SammiBaluch]

This video should have been recorded tomorrow, on the seventeenth year of my Father’s enforced disappearance. Instead, I am recording it today because for the last month and as recently as yesterday, I am being threatened with imprisonment. Seventeen years after they disappeared my father, I am still being forced to live in the shadow of the repression that stole him from us.

[Shamim Baloch @Shamim_Satakzai]

,دڑد او  ڈُکاتہ  داستان ئے ایڑ
لمہ   غان  بار  مہروان ئےایڑ
مہر  اٹی   داخہ بے مثالء او
ہِیت ہر ہِیتا جی او جانء ایڑ
ہر   خرینا سہک    شغانا تے
سَگّءچلتن نا کَچ تِخانے ایڑ
چہرہ غَن چائک دڑدےایلم نا
رازے  ڈَکُّوکہ راز  دان ء ایڑ
تُول  سیخاٹہ  دمدری  کائک

[Farhat Javed Rabani @FarhatJavedR]

Read my latest on Dr Mahrang Baloch who now faces a life behind bars:

‘When she was a teenager, she joined hundreds of families across Pakistan's Balochistan province to search for her father, who was allegedly arrested by security forces & later killed.

Years on, the doctor-turned-activist became one of the most recognisable faces of a movement demanding answers abt enforced disappearances.’
https://t.co/TFy70Yj3lL

[Veengas @VeengasJ]

Balochistan shut down in response to the verdict on Mahrang Baloch and Sabghtullah Shah. As part of the protest, slogans were written on walls, including one that read: “This is not life imprisonment; it is an open book of injustice.”
Today, it appeared that Balochistan had openly rejected the decision and expressed strong support for Mahrang Baloch.

[The Telegraph @ttindia]

Pakistan court hands life term to human rights activist Mahrang Baloch

https://t.co/8P5tXXi0hC

[Front Line Defenders @FrontLineHRD]

📍Pakistan

🚨 Front Line Defenders condemns the life sentence reportedly handed down to Baloch WHRD Dr Mahrang Baloch and BYC leader Sibghatullah, amid serious concerns over jail trials, video-link hearings, and fair trial standards.

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

Nobody expects someone like you to understand bravery and integrity.

[Veengas @VeengasJ]

What @MahrangBaloch_ was saying about rampant discrimination and injustice in Balochistan has been vindicated. Yesterday’s decision against her and Sabghtullah exposed the unjust system in Balochistan and proved her point: there is no justice, no democracy, and no free speech. Even while in jail, Mahrang is exposing the lies and anti-people system in Balochistan.

[امیر بشخ @Ameeruk_]

RT @VeengasJ: .@MahrangBaloch_ has been sentenced to life imprisonment. When the government influences the courts and demands that a decisi…

[Veengas @VeengasJ]

Unfair Trial—@MahrangBaloch_ & her fellows. @NadiaBaloch99, following the case, narrated how unfair trial is being imposed.
PPP tht has a history of facing unfair trials. They may know what the price of unfair trial is. Under PPP govt, unfair trial is imposed on Mahrang & fellows

[Hazaran Baloch @HazaranRahim]

And if I must tremble,
let it be while writing.
If I must perish,
let it be with ink on my hands.

[ReleaseNazarMarriBaloch @MarriBaloc85135]

ریاست ہمارے سامنے ہمارے پیاروں کو کسطرح گھسیٹ کہ لے جاتی ہے تو ٹارچر سیل میں ان کیساتھ کیا نہیں کیا ہوگا۰بلاجواز انہیں اٹھا کر لاپتا کرکے انہیں سالوں سال ٹارچر سیلوں میں انسانیت سوز سزائیں دی جاتی ہیں۰اسطرح کسی کو بلاجواز لاپتا کرکے انہیں اذیت دینا دنیا کی کسی قانون میں نہیں ہے۰