Several activists of civil society (HRCP, Aurat Foundation, WAF) and journalists gathered outside Karachi Press Club today with placards and banners and staged a demonstration against Emergency / Martial Law / Military Rule today on November 26, 2007 at about 04:00 pm.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against General Musharraf and strongly demanded that:
- Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhry, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan and other judges of Supreme Court and high courts should immediately be re-instated
- Mr. Munir A Malik Advocate, Mr. Tariq Mehmood Advocate, Mr. Ali Ahmed and Mr. Aitazaz Ahsan must be released immediately
- Mr. Munir A Malik Advocate must be shifted to Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) immediately
- Curb on print and electronic media should be lifted
- Lawyers, political and human rights activists arrested all over the country must immediately be released unconditionally;
- Freedom of association and political activities should not be curbed
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