People’s Resistance Media Brief - 25th Nov 2007
The latest edition of Peoples Resistance Media Brief - 25th Nov 2007 (PDF) is available for download
People’s Resistance faces Police Resistance
A flurry of SMS’s were posted on this blog which started of first on that I might actually be arrested by the police and my car impounded and a good 30 or so minutes later I posted that I was free to go credit to some intense on street side negotiations by the men and [...]
Update on Muneer A. Malik’s medical condition - Not Good
Received on the People’s Resistance network
We went to see Muneer A. Malik today, I will also send the photos of the protest we organised outside PIMS. He is in a critical condition. His creatinine level is very high he has undergone a dialysis and a second one is due in about half an hour. [...]
Missing in Pakistan - Documentary
A very touching film which must be watched by all alike, it was set to be released on Nov 21st in a viewing at FAST-NU Lahore but the authorities clamped down on this and prevented the viewing. Since then it has moved on to the digital world originally uploaded at [ The Critique Aggregator [...]
Update @ 1430: Restrictions on SC Judges tightened
People’s Resistance Legal Team reports
After an announcement by the Ministry of Interior yesterday that there were no restrictions on judges imprisoned in their residences in Islamabad, a group of lawyers decided to meet them to test this assertion.
The lawyers who were accompanied by Justice (retired) Wajihuddin, were prevented from visiting the Judges Colony at a [...]
Update @ 0402: People’s Resistance condemns Lathi Charge & Arrest of Journalists
Civil Society Condemns Lathi Charge and Arrest of Journalists
KARACHI, NOV 20: The civil society coalition People’s Resistance condemns in the strongest terms the brutal police lathi charge on unarmed journalists outside the Karachi Press Club and the arrests of Karachi Union of Journalists’ President Shamimur Rehman, Karachi Press Club President Sabihuddin Ghausi, Secretary General of [...]
Update @ 1826: An eye witness account of arrests & baton charge on journalists
Via e-mail from Anis Haroon who relates who journalists and his friends from Public Relations at various news agencies were first baton charged by the police and then arrested when they attended a peace rally outside the Karachi Press Club, earlier today at 1500:
The print and electronic media had given a call for procession on [...]
Update @ 1610: A large number of Journalists arrested
In a rally organized by KUJ which was supposed to take out a protest rally from Karachi Press Club to the Governors House came under some police action which resulted in lathi Charge which ended up having over 150 journalists behind bars. A few fellow activists are also in jail at the moment which [...]
Update 0506: People’s Resistance Flash Protest, PIDC, Karachi
Yesterday November 16th at 5:30 pm the People’s Resistance organized a Flash Protest at PIDC Karachi which according to its basic rules does not last more then 10 minutes, a number of people showed up at very short notice to voice their opinion against the Martial Law, a few images have been displayed with the [...]
Update @ 1113: Assault on Protesting Students in Islamabad
A report received via the People’s resistance mailing list from an activist in Islamabad
On 12th November, 9 days after an unconstitutional act of emergency was declared, the regime crossed a new threshold by shamelessly attacking, arresting and detaining schoolchildren in Islamabad. A group of students, most of them between 14 and 18 years of age, [...]
Update @ 0539: Images from Nov 10th peace rally at Downing Street in London
The following images were sent in to us by the People’s Resistance in London where over 1,000 people rallied last Saturday outside the UK Prime Minister’s residence on Downing Street to demand that Britain uses their influence in Islamabad to pressurize Musharaff to lift his martial law, hold elections, remove media curbs and release all [...]
Update @ 0230: People’s Resistance Action Update 12th Nov
A number of concerned citizens of Karachi have joined together to form a loosely connected people who have started calling themselves the People’s Resistance, it remains peaceful initiative by civil society to peacefully rally against the recently imposed martial law
The flash demonstrations were held at two venues. The first one at the Schoen Circle was [...]
Update @ 0320: People’s Resistence issues a Statement to Support Judiciary
A group of concerned citizens from the People’s Resistance (umbrella group formed to resist the ‘emergency’) have been meeting the non-PCO judges over the last few days to extend solidarity and appreciate their stand.
Below please see a summary of the key points that emerged from these meetings
Civil society coalition, People’s Resistance, is appalled at [...]
Update @ 0942: National Party’s General Secretary is targeted by Pakistani Government
Via e-mail from Umar Farooq with the People’s Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens:
Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, General Secretary National Party, was sent on judicial remand to Landhi District Jail on November 8, 2007. [...]
Update @ 2030: Peace Rally outside MacDonald’s in Karachi today
The following came into us via e-mail from a representative with the Peoples’ Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens, demonstrated today (Friday) evening outside MacDonald’s at Sea View in Clifton in a flash peace rally:
The public rally [...]
