Senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday said that the judiciary in the federal capital has failed to protect the rights of prisoners as the party continues to demand a probe into allegations of torture on Imran Khan’s chief of staff Shahbaz Gill in incarceration.
Fawad has been demanding a probe into Gill’s alleged torture during detention, in the sedition case he is currently facing, by an independent boardon PTI’s behalf. Gill has been behind bars for almost two weeks in the sedition treason case, while PTI insists that he has been tortured and “sexually abused.”
Taking to Twitter, the PTI leader said that multiple international human rights bodies launching a probe into the said allegations is proof of the failure of the judicial system.
“Islamabad Judiciary have miserably failed to safeguard prisoners rights against torture. However, it appears Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and United Nations Human Rights Council have started an initial probe into the torture and sexual abuse allegations in the case of Shahbaz Gill […] yet another proof of judicial system failure,” Fawad wrote.
Last week, United Kingdom-based international non-governmental organisation for human rights Amnesty International expressed concern about the alleged torture being inflicted on Gill during detention.
In a tweet, Amnesty International called for an immediate and impartial probe into the allegations of torture.
“Amnesty International is concerned about the allegations of torture being made by the lawyers of Shahbaz Gill, and calls for an immediate, effective and impartial inquiry investigating these claims,” the tweet read.
‘No legal significance of terror case against Imran Khan’
eparately, in a conversation with BBC, Fawad said that the most unique thing that has never happened in Pakistan before is that political opponents are being charged over blasphemy and terrorism.
“What Imran Khan said was that his chief of staff [Shahbaz Gill] was abducted and tortured, and the magistrate handed him over back to police without investigating charges of torture,” he said.
