The Real News interviewee arrested in PakistanAsma Jahangir is a founder and Chair of The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent, voluntary, non-profit organization unassociated with the government. She is also the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Council on Human Rights.
Asma Jahangir forced into house arrest under Pakistan martial law, two weeks after interview in TRNN studio, she expects to be jailed soon.
Listen to this short interview.....and what she has to say about US policy.
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ISLAMABAD: Up to 500 people have been arrested across Pakistan in a crackdown launched after the declaration of a state of emergency, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said yesterday.Aziz further said that parliament was entitled to delay elections for a year under emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, but added that the government had not yet made a decision.
"There have been 400 to 500 preventive arrests in the country," Aziz said, giving the first confirmed figure since Musharraf announced the emergency on Saturday.
The arrested activists include Javed Hashmi, acting chief of former premier Nawaz Sharif's party, leading rights activist Asma Jahangir and cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan.
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