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2006-10-05 India-Pakistan

113 Inmates Freed From Cleric's Private Jail

Haripur, 5 Oct. (AKI/DAWN) - Raiding a private jail run by a cleric in a village near Haripur, some 65 kilometres north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, police have freed 113 people, seven of them British nationals of Pakistani origin. Many of them were young men and boys. Maulana Ilyas Qadri, who was running the private jail, and his six guards were also arrested in the raid carried out late on Monday night.

The district police officer Abdul Rasheed Khan said that a police party, acting on a complaint, raided the jail in Badhana village, along the Tarbela Lake, and freed the 113 people from illegal detention. All of them were fettered and appeared severely malnourished. They were treated in an inhuman manner by the cleric and guards of the jail, the DPO told newsmen on Wednesday.

Cases have been registered against the cleric and his six guards Ghulam Kibriya, Shaukat Rehman, Fakhar Zaman, Farman Khan, Javed and Mazar Ali.

The complainants who had escaped from the jail said they were tortured and kept fettered. They would beat us with clubs whenever someone tried to escape or object to the treatment meted out to them, they said. They alleged that the guards also sexually abused them and children. All the freed inmates were brought to Haripur district courts where eight boys Ghani, Sarfraz, Najeebullah, Adeel, Ehsan Ali, Mohammad Hanif, Zeshana and Abdul Ahad aged between 12 and 18 years recorded their statements before civil judge Hina Khan.

Posted by Steve 2006-10-05 09:01|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "113 people... Many of them were young men and boys."
"They alleged that the guards also sexually abused them and children."
"...eight boys... aged between 12 and 18 years recorded their statements before civil judge Hina Khan."
Why is Foley getting all the attention?

Posted by Darrell 2006-10-05 09:16|| 2006-10-05 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Many of them were young men and boy toys.

There, fixed that.

The reason why Foley's getting all the attention is that, here in America, we don't live in some prehistoric pisshole backwater where such misbegotten behavior is par for the course.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-05 12:28|| 2006-10-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 why not release the Maulana and his thugs to the custody of the 113?

Posted by Frank G 2006-10-05 13:55|| 2006-10-05 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Lock them in their own "Jail"
Shackle them to the bars and weld their chains together.
Post a guard to prevent any welding/cutting implements inside, otherwise allow free entry and exit.
Wait.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-10-05 19:18|| 2006-10-05 19:18|| Front Page Top

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