Pakistan: Turning Human Rights Activists Into Terrorists

by Nilesh KunwarDubious SentencingIn Pakistan, there’s a saying that ‘if you fight for the human rights of others, then be ready to lose your own’. And with an anti-terrorism court convicting human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha to 10 years imprisonment the import of this cynical maxim has yet once again been vindicated.Detractors may however contend that since the
by Nilesh KunwarDubious SentencingIn Pakistan, there’s a saying that ‘if you fight for the human rights of others, then be ready to lose your own’. And with an anti-terrorism court convicting human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha to 10 years imprisonment the import of this cynical maxim has yet once again been vindicated.Detractors may however contend that since the
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