International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2007
On the call of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the International Human Rights Day, was observed as “Black Day”. The idea was to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the present regime against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on media, arrests of thousands of lawyers, journalists, students, teachers and human rights activists; charging lawyers and others under the Anti-Terrorism Act; house arrest of 35 judges of superior courts.
Hundreds of human rights activists, members of civil society, trade unions and labour organizations, lawyers, doctors, teachers, students, political workers, Sindhi and Baloch nationalists gathered at Karachi Press Club, wearing black clothes and with black flags and staged a demonstration on that day. Protesters chanted anti-government slogans and held banners and placards demanding restoration of deposed judges, the constitution and revival of human rights in Pakistan.
On the call of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the International Human Rights Day, was observed as “Black Day”. The idea was to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the present regime against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on media, arrests of thousands of lawyers, journalists, students, teachers and human rights activists; charging lawyers and others under the Anti-Terrorism Act; house arrest of 35 judges of superior courts.
Hundreds of human rights activists, members of civil society, trade unions and labour organizations, lawyers, doctors, teachers, students, political workers, Sindhi and Baloch nationalists gathered at Karachi Press Club, wearing black clothes and with black flags and staged a demonstration on that day. Protesters chanted anti-government slogans and held banners and placards demanding restoration of deposed judges, the constitution and revival of human rights in Pakistan.
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