Pakistani police free 290 Baloch activists arrested while protesting extrajudicial killings
by Munir Ahmed
Dec 25, 2023
2 minutes
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Pakistani police Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad.
Their release came days after protest organizers gave authorities a deadline to release all those detained.
The activists had traveled 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 province, to protest forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the militancy-ravaged southwest.
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