Syed Intisaruddin

Lives in Karachi, Pakistan

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

I've spent long enough in national security not to miss the obvious.

The hammer that didn't work in Bengal, and is failing in Balochistan, will certaintly not work in Kashmir either.

Which begs a question: Why still repeat the same blunder over and again, unless the objective is to undo the country?

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

I spoke to Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s son Elyas about his father and the horrors inflicted upon him by Israel. Please watch and share https://t.co/Z2coN50KdY

[Amnesty Italia @amnestyitalia]

Oltre 70000 persone - solo in Italia - chiedono la scarcerazione immediata del pediatra di Gaza, il dott. Abu Safiya https://t.co/FoCRru1syI

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Palestinian pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, has spent 18 months in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. His lawyer reports his life is in immediate danger, following torture and poor treatment in prison.

He must be released immediately.

https://t.co/KUgwWI3ywn

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA
FREE DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.

>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.

[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

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: UN human rights body has called Israel’s detention of Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya "arbitrary", calling for his immediate release amid warnings from rights groups and his lawyer that his life is in imminent danger.

🔴 More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I’m trying to imagine being 20 years old and being ordered to torture an elderly celebrated physician who’s being endlessly detained without charges. Most would refuse that order. It’s an indictment of Israeli society that they seem to have no problem finding people to do it.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨We are deeply alarmed by the reports that there is an imminent threat to Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya’s life as a result of torture and other ill treatment he has been suffering while in Israeli custody. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya. Pending his release, we call on the Israeli Prison service to ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/vaPOQtMRC4

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Khan Zaman Kakar @khanzamankakar]

What is happening in Hanna Urak, Quetta today is the story of every second village across Pakistan's Pashtun region over the past two decades. That experience should guide us: we must directly hold the state accountable and strongly demand an end to this model of Khaki expansion.

[Shireen Mazari @ShireenMazari1]

FIFA breaks it own rules to effectively allow the US to cheat in efforts to win their upcoming game in the World Cup. Shameful but expected from Trump & sycophant Infantino. US defined by being cheats! Balogun has red card suspended so he can play for US-Belgium World Cup clash https://t.co/6MNbLr6fz1

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

URGENT CALL: Join the "One Million Voices for the Free of Hussam Abu Safieh" campaign.

Reply with 🇵🇸 or even a dot.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.

We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!

Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.

@ICRCPresident
@DrTedros

[𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢 @ColdBrief]

https://t.co/OBZ1OKJg2V

[PWA - Pakistan World Alliance @MediaCentrePWA]

Further protest in the UK today against the state violence in Azad Kashmir which resulted in several deaths. Why can't the UK Govt apply Magnitsky style sanctions on Pakistani Officials committing human rights abuses in Pakistan, asks @JehanzebParacha to MP @andrewpakes_

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

The little boy DIED

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

For the past 10 hours I've been in an Israeli police station, arrested and interrogated FOR BEING ATTACKED BY A SETTLER in Masafer Yatta

In the past hour I've been told that i'm detained, then arrested, then not arrested, then free to go, then not free to go

I am still at the police station, I have no idea what's going on, and I feel like today's script was written by Franz Kafka

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.

🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.

🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.

🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”

🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”

Photo: Amnesty International