farzana bari

Ex-Director, Center of Excellence Gender Studies, QAU and Human Rights Activist.

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

Yasmin Rashid is in her late 70’s. A cancer survivor. And didn’t commit any crime. Yet she is in jail for more than 3 years. She should be released immediately.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

Fully agreed

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

AND actively sabotaging PTI’s attempt at holding electoral campaigns in GB. The govt doesn’t care for even the pretence of democracy anymore and to be fair, the EU doesn’t truly give a shit about human rights either.

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

So while the EU was holding meetings with Pakistan’s top leadership about human rights and GSP+, the NCCIA was busy filing an application to prolong the farcical imprisonment of the country’s leading human rights lawyers. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

It is so shameful and worrying.

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨#BREAKING: Worrying reports, sources claim #Pakistan’s most prominent human rights defenders @ImaanZHazir and @AdvHadiali sentence suspension application hearing for 4th of June delisted in #Islamabad high court without giving any new date. There will be no hearing on 4th of June despite two weeks deadline given by #SupremeCourt already lapsed.

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

We are so tired of mourning the death of our innocet citizen. Strongly condemn this act of terrorism and government's failure to provide protection to citizens.

[Mohsin Durrani @DurraniMohsin85]

Yes, Quetta bleeds again.
Yes, India’s sponsorship of the BLA is no longer a fringe accusation but a regional reality many refuse to confront.
Yes, the BLA murders Baloch, Pashtoons, Brahwis, Punjabis — ordinary Pakistanis whose only crime is existing in the path of a proxy war.

But after every coffin is lowered into the ground, after every slogan trends for 24 hours, one question still haunts this nation: now what? Where is the justice for the martyrs? Where is the political vision for Balochistan beyond funerals, checkpoints and blame games? 26 families will enter Eid-ul-Adha with empty chairs and shattered homes. Quetta bleeds. Balochistan bleeds. Pakistan bleeds. And a bleeding nation cannot survive forever on statements and hashtags alone..

#QuettaAttack #FitnaAlHindustan #BLA_Terrorists #BalochistanUnderAttack #NOWwhat

[Q @QindeelAzeem]

🚨 Over 100 prominent Pakistanis & organisations urge Federal Government not to oppose bail & suspension of sentence for human rights defenders @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali in Supreme Court hearing tomorrow (12 May)

Their continued detention over social media posts is a serious blow to free speech and fair trial rights

#ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

We salute you
to stand against state brutality. All power to you #AuratMarch

[Shahzadi Rai @ShahzadiRai]

Today, I was beaten up, dragged, thrashed and humiliated by Sindh Police for standing up for @AuratMarchKHI , for standing up for cis women allies, for standing up for feminist values.
Id still demand an NOC for Aurat March Karachi from relevant government authorities. @AseefaBZ

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

This shows how patriarchal Order is threatened by women fighting for gender equality #AuratMarch

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

#AuratMarch organizers including Sheema Kirmani taken into custody for trying to enter Karachi Press Club for press conference at 4pm today. How does S. 144 PPC prohibits access to KPC. Under what law press conferences have been banned. Release the activists. Shame on #PPP

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

@NKMalazai @AuratMarchKHI Absulotetly shameful. I strongly condemn Sindh police for this illegal arrest. State cannot silence human rights defenders through such tactics.

[Shireen Mazari @ShireenMazari1]

One of the BBG victim's wife Iqra Khurram Rasheed came to show support for @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali. It's these people's prayers that sustain Imaan, Hadi & our family as r children suffer continued injustice & illegal incarceration. Always abt vengeance, never abt justice or law. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

We strongly condemn the illegal arrest of peaceful members of Aurat March Karachi. This shows the sheer paranoia of the state.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Several members of the Aurat March Karachi team have been arrested for trying to hold a pre-approved press conference at the Karachi Press Club. Apparently even press conferences are not allowed anymore by the Sindh govt. Please raise your voices & demand their immediate release!

[farzana bari @drfarzanabari]

This is so shameful that state is so paranoid that they don't want peaceful feminist to hold press conference. We stand in solidarity with our feminist sisters in Karachi.

[Sameer Mandhro @smendhro]

Karachi police have arrested Sheema Kirmani, Shahzadi Rai, and others outside the Karachi Press Club, where they were scheduled to address a press conference. Officers claimed they were “just following orders.” The language used by police was highly inappropriate & concerning.

[Alifya Sohail @AlifyaSohail]

“I was arrested by the FIA’s cybercrime wing under false blasphemy allegations and jailed for three years. Today, I am only free because of my lawyers Hadi Ali Chattha and Imaan Mazari—who themselves are behind bars for defending people like us.” #ReleaseImaanAndHadi

[Naimat Khan @NKMalazai]

ایک ایسے وقت میں جب ون کنسٹی ٹیوشن ایونیو کے معاملے پر پورے ملک میں شور مچا ہوا ہے، میری کولیگ@KashafRehman7 اسی عالی شان عمارت سے صرف چند کلومیٹر کے فاصلے پر واقع بری امام سے بے دخلی کی ایک درد بھری کہانی لے کر آئی ہیں۔ ان غریبوں کی کہانی بھی سنئیے گا۔

[Murtaza Solangi @murtazasolangi]

Girls like her prove every day that our women are strong, resilient, courageous and fit to do anything they want. From wearing prime ministerial robes to fighting on the frontlines in air, space, deep waters and high hills.
Nobody can slow them down.

[Azaz Syed @AzazSyed]

انسانی حقوق کی ممتاز کارکن فرزانہ باری نے انکشاف کیا ہے کہ وہ ایمان حاضر مزاری اور ہادی علی چٹھہ کے بارے میں ایک پروگرام کرنے کی خواہاں تھیں مگر انہیں اسلام آباد پریس کلب سمیت کسی نے ہال نہیں دیا تاہم ان تمام مسائل کے باوجود وہ یہ پروگرام منعقد کریں گی

[Ali Tanoli @alitanoli889]

عالمی یوم صحافت کےموقع پرصحافیوں، انسانی حقوق کے کارکنان اورسول سوسائٹی کی شخصیات کا وزیراعظم شہبازشریف کوخط،صحافیوں کی جبری گمشدگیاں،دباؤ، ہراسانی،مقدمات اورغیراعلانیہ سنسرشپ پر تشویش کااظہار،آزادوخودمختار صحافت کیلئےعملی اقدامات کامطالبہ،خط پر @HamidMirPAK سمیت108افراددستخط کئے

[Shireen Mazari @ShireenMazari1]

Civil society & HR activists outside opp the NPC bec the Press Club refused to allow them access inside for their press conference. Some things never change sadly. #ReleaseImaanAbdHadi. 102 days of illegal incarceration today.