Tag: torture

  • Electric current was used on my penis and testes, says Gill

    Electric current was used on my penis and testes, says Gill

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shahbaz Gill told journalist Matiullah Jan that electric current was used on his genitals. He was responding to a question on the alleged sexual abuse.

    “Yes, it is true. Electric current was used on my testes and penis. This is the sexual abuse I was talking about. I was tortured as electric current was used on my penis and testes so that I could give a statement against someone,” said Gill.

    Earlier, Gill confirmed that he was sexually assaulted in police custody.

    “Yes, it’s true”, said Gill. His statement came after PTI Chairman Imran Khan claimed that Gill was sexually abused while in police custody.

    Read more: ‘Yes, it’s true’: Shahbaz Gill confirms he was sexually assaulted in police custody

    In a series of tweets Khan said, “All the pictures and videos show clearly Gill was tortured both mentally and physically, including sexual abuse — most too gruesome to relate.”

    Read more: Islamabad court rejects plea to send Gill on physical remand

    It is pertinent to mention here that a district and sessions court in Islamabad on Wednesday, August 24, rejected a request by the Islamabad Police for an extension in the physical remand of Gill.

  • Fawad proposes committee with leaders from coalition govt and PTI to probe Gill’s ‘torture’

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday (August 20) proposed the formation of a committee comprising Federal Railways and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, and PTI leader Dr Shireen Mazari — to investigate the “torture” of Dr Shahbaz Gill.

    “They will also not be blamed for being pro-PTI,” Fawad tweeted.

    “These people have a point of view on torture, which is independent of their parties’ narrative […] hence, they should be given the responsibility of inquiring the events,” he said.

    The PTI has alleged that Gill was tortured in custody and was sexually abused.

    On Friday, Khan said in a series of tweets said, “All the pictures and videos show clearly Gill was tortured both mentally and physically, including sexual abuse — most too gruesome to relate.”

    Talking to media persons outside the capital’s Police Lines Headquarters today, Chaudhry asserted that physical or mental torture won’t be allowed under any circumstances.

    “I personally believe […] and this is not my party’s demand but mine […] that an independent panel should be formed and the torture should be investigated. And then the faces of those who tortured [Gill] and those who passed its orders should be brought forward in public,” he said, requesting the Supreme Court to take notice of the incident.

  • Teenager boy abducted, raped, and tortured in Balochistan

    Teenager boy abducted, raped, and tortured in Balochistan

    A 12-year-old boy was raped and tortured after he was abducted from a wedding function in Mastung, Balochistan. He was rescued by the Levies, a law enforcement agency.

    As per details, unidentified men kidnapped the boy from a wedding function. Subsequently, his family filed a case in a nearby police station.

    According to Assistant Commissioner, Farida Tarin, the boy was found unconscious at the crime scene. Levies also arrested a suspect from the scene.

    During the initial investigation, the suspect confessed that he was involved in raping and torturing the teenage boy.

    Farida Tarin also confirmed that raids are being conducted to arrest all perpetrators involved.

  • TV host Iqrar-ul-Hassan accuses Intelligence Bureau of torturing him

    TV host Iqrar-ul-Hassan accuses Intelligence Bureau of torturing him

    Television host and journalist Syed Iqrar-ul-Hassan on Tuesday accused officials of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of detaining him, members of his team, and subjecting them to extreme torture.

    Pictures of Hassan in bloodied, torn-up clothes, receiving medical treatment on a hospital bed were shared on Twitter. Later, journalist Waseem Badami shared pictures and videos of him visiting Hassan at the hospital.

    Talking about the incident, Iqrar said that he and his team members were “stripped naked, blindfolded and tortured for exposing the corruption of an IB inspector”. He alleged that IB officials also shot videos of him after stripping him and his team members naked.

    Speaking with ARY News, a channel where he works and hosts his show TV programme  ‘Sar-e-Aam’, Iqrar said that an officer of IB was taking bribe at the gate of the agency’s office and “we tried to report him to the high-ups, but senior IB officer Rizwan Shah manhandled the ‘Sar-e-Aam’ team and kept beating us”.

    “We were treated as a mole working for a foreign country,” he added.

    Hassan claimed he and his team were held hostage for more than three hours. “I got almost 8-10 stitches on my head due to the torture”.

    He said a few members of his team were even given electric shocks to “sensitive” body parts. “I want to bring [to light] the video we shot at the IB office, but I learned that it has been discarded by the agency officials.”

    Following the incident, Deputy Director General IB Iftikhar Nabi Tunio issued a notification suspending five officials “for mistreatment of ARY News team and mishandling the situation”, reports Dawn.

    The suspended officers were Syed Mohiuddin Rizwan (Director, BPS-19), Mehmoob Ali (stenotypist), Inam Ali (stenotypist), Rajab Ali (sub-inspector) and Khawar.

    Hassan responded to the development, saying: “I am thankful to the federal government for taking prompt action and suspending five officers involved in the incident.”

  • Hindu family ‘tortured’ for taking drinking water from mosque

    Hindu family ‘tortured’ for taking drinking water from mosque

    A farmworker’s family from the Hindu community was allegedly tortured by some village landlords for “violating the sanctity” of the mosque after they obtained water from a mosque’s tap, Dawn reported.

    The incident happened a few days back when Alam Ram Bheel, a resident of Basti Kahoor Khan in the city suburbs, was picking raw cotton (phutti) with his family members, including his wife, in a field of Chak 106-P.

    Ram said his family went to a nearby mosque to fetch water to drink from a tap, after which some local landlords and their men beat them up. When the family was going back home after unloading the picked cotton, the landlords held them hostage at their dera (outhouse) and beat them again.

    Later, some Muslim residents of Basti Kahoor Khan got the Bheel family released.

    Ram Bheel said the Airport police station did not file the case as the people who attacked were related to a local PTI parliamentarian.

    Ram said he held a sit-in outside the police station to protest the arrogance.

    Also a member of the district peace committee, Peter Jhon Bheel told Dawn that they approached PTI MNA Javed Warriach who helped them register the FIR on Friday.

    Jhon said he requested other members of the district peace committee to discuss the issue in a meeting but they did not take him seriously.

    PTI’s South Punjab Minority Wing Secretary General Yodhister Chohan told Dawn that he knew about the incident but due to the influence of a ruling party MP, he preferred to stay away.

    District Police Officer Asad Sarfraz said that he was looking into the matter.

    Deputy Commissioner Dr Khuram Shehzad said he would meet Hindu minority elders on Monday (today) before taking any action.

  • Private torture cell found in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital

    A private torture cell has been found at Lahore’s Mayo Hospital, Jang News has reported. The torture cell was run by Zohaib, the janitorial supervisor at Mayo Hospital, who used to arrest and torture people.

    In a video received by Geo News, Zohaib can be seen torturing people.

    Zohaib picked up patients on suspicion of theft and drug trafficking and tortured them.

    Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Iftikhar fired three employees, including Zohaib. Dr Iftikhar said that he has formed a three-member inquiry committee to investigate the matter. As per reports, the inquiry committee will complete the investigation within 24 hours and submit a report to the MS.

  • Karachi woman tortured to death over parking spot

    A woman was tortured to death in Karachi over a parking issue.

    As per reports, the incident was reported in Karachi’s North Nazimabad Block L, where a woman argued with a man named Farhan over parking his vehicle in front of her home.

    Later, the man along with his accomplices barged into the house of the woman and tortured her to death.

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    Earlier this year in Karachi, a man was killed when he refrained boys from playing cricket in front of his house in North Karachi.

    According to the police, the incident happened in North Karachi’s Sector 5-D, where four boys attacked a 31-year-old man named Rehan with the bat and wicket when he asked the boys not to play cricket in front of his house.

    Rehan was taken to a nearby hospital, but he could not survive. Police arrested the boys.

  • Imam Masjid arrested for ‘torturing’ 13-year-old boy in Lahore

    Imam Masjid arrested for ‘torturing’ 13-year-old boy in Lahore

    A 13-year-old boy was beaten up by an Imam Masjid because he reportedly took a leave for a day.

    Lahore police on Tuesday arrested the imam of a mosque for allegedly torturing a 13-year-old boy.

    As per reports, Assistant Superintendent of Police Kahna Circle Shoaib Memon and his team went to arrest the imam identified as Tariq.

    Read More: Woman raped in front of 14-month-old baby, both die in hospital

    According to a statement issued by Lahore’s Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) office, the police took notice of the incident and released orders to instantly arrest the mosque’s imam.

    CCPO Ghulam Muhammad Dogar said that the Model Town police has already started an investigation into the matter to serve justice.

    “No incident of torture against children will be tolerated,” said Dogar.

  • Prisoners forced to listen to ‘Baby Shark’ for hours as torture

    Jail employees at Oklahoma, USA are facing charges for painful misbehaviour and torture as more than four prisoners were often handcuffed and forced to stand and listen to the popular children’s song Baby Shark repeatedly for hours.

    Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles, both 21 years of age, are jailers who have been charged for the offense on counts of cruelty to prisoners and victimizing them ‘undue emotional stress.’ Along with the jail employees, their supervisor, Christopher Raymond Hendershott, 50 years of age, is also involved.

    According to the officials, the prisoners were handcuffed to a wall then the song was played on loop at a loud volume on the speaker for hours.

    “It was unfortunate that I could not find a felony statute to fit this fact scenario,” Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said.

  • Late poet Fahmida Riaz’s daughter declines presidential award to protest treatment of journalists, writers

    Late poet Fahmida Riaz’s daughter declines presidential award to protest treatment of journalists, writers

    Renowned poet Fahmida Riaz’s daughter, in protest against the alleged abduction and torture of journalists and writers by the state, has declined the presidential award that the government had announced for her late mother.

    This is the second national award that has been turned down this year as earlier, Saeen Taj Joyo, the father of missing Sindhi teacher and activist Sarang Joyo, had also declined the President’s Pride of Performance (Nisan-e-Pakistan) award on account of the disappearance of his son.

    Sarang Joyo was recently traced and claimed to have been tortured in captivity.

    In a social media post, Fahmida Riaz’s daughter Veerta Ali Ujan said that accepting an award from the Imran Khan government on her mother’s behalf would be an insult to her struggle for justice and equality. “Harassers [are] being awarded. Karachi left to rot in sewage.”

    She said had her mother been alive today, she would have also refused to accept the award from the government.

    Born in Meerut in pre-partition India in 1946, Fahmida Riaz was among the leading Urdu poets.

    She was also an unrelenting social critic and had been active in several human rights movements. She was among the writers, who had campaigned against former military ruler General Ziaul Haq’s regime and the execution of former prime minister (PM) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

    She had to suffer the wrath of authorities and also spent a period of self-exile in India.

    She died on November 21, 2018, at the age of 72.