ISLAMABAD — A SHOCKING judicial execution of free speech has just been carried out in Pakistan. A kangaroo court has handed down a BRUTAL 17-year prison sentence to TWO human rights lawyers for the “crime” of posting TWEETS. Zainab Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, are now political prisoners, condemned to rot in a cell for daring to criticize the state.
In a BLISTERINGLY fast “trial” that lasted barely 24 hours, Judge Afzal Majoka railroaded the couple after they boycotted the farcical hearing. The charges? So-called “anti-state” social media posts that allegedly aligned with banned groups. This is NOT justice; this is a STATE-SANCTIONED KIDNAPPING disguised as law.
The message from the powerful security establishment is BLOOD-CHILLINGLY clear: dissent will be CRUSHED. The couple, who famously defended journalists and activists abducted by those very forces, were themselves arrested with excessive force. Their real crime was exposing the regime’s atrocities.
While Amnesty International condemns this “judicial harassment,” the government’s Information Minister brazenly celebrated the verdict with a vengeful proverb. This is the TRUE face of Pakistan’s crackdown—where the daughter of a former human rights minister can be DISAPPEARED into a prison cell with a single stroke of a judge’s pen.
The world watches in silence as a nation descends into a digital dictatorship where your keyboard is now a weapon that can land you in prison for DECADES. If defending human rights is terrorism, then tyranny has already won.
Author: Kayitsi.com
