""Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha have been arrested and put in separate cars and taken away to unknown locations," Mazari wrote on X on Friday."
""Our lawyers had taken water and some dry fruit for them & medicine for Imaan but were denied access," Mazari wrote, alleging that police used violence against the couple during their arrest."
""Arresting lawyers in the presence of the bar leadership and taking them to an undisclosed police station constitutes grave abuse of authority and contempt for due process," it wrote on X."
Pakistani rights lawyer Imaan Mazari-Hazir, 32, and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha were arrested while en route from the Islamabad High Court and taken to undisclosed locations. They were accompanied by Islamabad High Court Bar leadership during the arrest. Family and lawyers reported being denied access and supplies and alleged police used violence. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned the arrests as an abuse of authority and called for immediate release. Authorities charged the couple under cyber-terrorism, hate speech and false information sections over X posts critical of security forces and missing persons responses.
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