52 Illegal Detention Centers Identified in Pakistan

The Asian Human Rights Commission earlier this month identified 52 illegal detention centers in Pakistan. Since 2001 thousands of families have been searching frantically for their loved ones, but all in vain. According to the commission, intelligence agencies have kept these people in detention centers and forced them to confess involvement in terrorist activities. The only ray of hope dimmed, when President Pervez Musharraf removed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry last November. The judge had directed the country's intelligence chief to present the prisoners to the court. Now Pakistanis are protesting across the country, calling for the release of all disappeared persons, and the closure of the illegal detention facilities. FSRN correspondent in Peshawar Rahmanullah has more.

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