Pakistan: minority rights defenders attacked during peaceful protest
Event- Country
- Pakistan
- Initial Date
- Oct 1, 2024
- Event Description
On 1 and 2 October, the police used teargas and firearms to dismantle a peaceful protest camp of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), an indigenous human rights group, in Jamrud, Khyber District.
This comes days before the PTM was banned by the Pakistan Federal Government for "engaging in certain activities which are prejudicial to the peace and security of the country".
The ban was enforced on 6 October 2024, days before the PTM was supposed to have an assembly on 11 October-13 October.
Human rights groups condemned the state's use of violence and leveraging the Anti-Terrorism Law to curtail the people's right to peaceful protest.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Minority rights defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 34.0056407323098
Longitude: 71.37858919587696
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 1 and 2 October 2024, the police used teargas and firearms to dismantle a peaceful protest camp of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), an minority human rights group, at Jamrud, Khyber District, Pakistan.