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Human rights activists sentenced to life in prison Pakistan over soldier’s death during rally
Prosecutors said the pair mobilized a mob that beat a paramilitary soldier to death, and the court allowed appeals after the life sentences.
- On Monday, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced Mahrang Baloch and Sibghatullah Shah, leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee , to life in prison for the 2024 murder of a paramilitary soldier during a rally in Gwadar.
- Authorities allege the BYC serves as a front for the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army , a separatist group designated a terrorist organization in 2006, though the BYC rejects these claims and maintains it is a peaceful rights movement.
- Prosecutors cited "undeniable evidence" that Mahrang and Shah mobilized the mob that killed the soldier, prompting authorities to move proceedings from Gwadar to Quetta amid security concerns and witness intimidation.
- Baluchistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti hailed the verdict as a "demonstration of the rule of law and justice," while provincial spokesman Shahid Rind stated the case concerned murder, not political activism or dissent.
- The defendants retain the right to appeal the verdict amid ongoing violence in Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran and remains a center of long-running separatist insurgency.
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Activists in Pakistan sentenced to life in prison over soldier's death during rally
An anti-terrorism court in southwestern Pakistan has sentenced two human rights activists to life in prison over the 2024 death of a paramilitary soldier during a rally in the port city of Gwadar.
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Mahrang Baloch and Sibghatullah Shah, leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), prominent human rights movement in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, were convicted of incitement to revolt and murder in the case of Shabbir Baloch's murder during a demonstration organized by BYC in the region's Gwadar port city, according to Associated Press. According to the prosecution, the two activists incited a crowd who later attacked a security forc…
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