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نيروهاي انتظامي و اطلاعاتي 19 جوان را در
ايرانشهر به بهانه "اجراي طرح ارتقاء امنيت اخلاقي"در يکروز دستگير کردند
By: Peter Tatchell
Protest against Baloch terror trial
Drop all charges against Marri and Baluch
Stop abusing the anti-terror laws
Human rights campaigners are not terrorists
Please circulate this appeal to all your friends. Urge
them to attend on Monday
9am to 10am, Monday 1 December Woolwich Crown Court, 2 Belmarsh Road,
London SE28 0EY
See the full address and directions below.
Defend Hyrbyair Marri and Faiz Baluch, the Balochistan
human rights campaigners who have been framed on
terrorism charges by Pakistani intelligence (see a
confidential briefing about their case below).
Monday's protest is supported by Baloch and Sindhi
rights campaigners and members of CAMPACC, the Campaign
Against Criminalising Communities.
"This trial is another abuse of the anti-terror laws,"
says human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who is
helping coordinate Monday's protest.
"The UK government has been blackmailed into arresting
these men and harassing other Baloch exiles and refugees.
Pakistan's military and intelligence services have
threatened to end all cooperation with the UK in the
so-called "war on terror" unless critics of its war in
Balochistan are silenced and jailed. That is why Marri
and Baluch are on trial.
"Marri and Baluch have campaigned for self-determination
for Balochistan and helped expose Pakistan's annexation
and oppression of the Baloch nation. They are defending
their people against oppression and exploitation.
"The UK government aided and abetted the illegal
dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf, selling him military
equipment used to prosecute Pakistan's illegal war in
Balochistan - a war that has involved the perpetration
of war crimes and crimes against humanity," said Mr
Tatchell.
Please bring placards. Suggested slogans:
Free Marri and Baluch
Hyrbyair and Faiz are innocent
Marri and Baluch - Framed by Pakistan
Self-defence is no offence
Marri & Baluch - Victims of police abuse
War on Terror - No more innocent victims
Stop harassing Baloch refugees
Put Musharraf on trial
Defending human rights is not terrorism
Drop the charges - Free Marri and Baluch
Please make sure the slogans are written in large, bold,
dark lettering (this makes them easier to read and
photograph).
Court address and directions:
Woolwich Crown Court
2 Belmarsh Road
London SE28 0EY
020 8312 7000
Map location:
http://tinyurl.com/5nbwqq
Nearest train station: Plumstead, on the Southeastern
line, from
London Bridge, Cannon Street or Lewisham.
The court is about 15 minutes walk from Plumstead
station.
Further information: Peter Tatchell - 020 7403 1790
Baloch terror trial
Helena Kennedy QC seeks disclosure by UK government
Pakistan says: drop this prosecution
Self-defence and abuse of process argument outlined
CONFIDENTIAL briefing - NOT for publication, due to
contempt laws, until these issues are revealed in court
to the jury.
In a surprise development, the terrorism trial of two
London-based Baloch human rights campaigners, at
Woolwich Crown Court in London, has been adjourned until
Monday 1 December.
This adjournment was prompted after defence lawyers
stunned the prosecution by seeking disclosure of
contacts between the British government and the illegal,
unconstitutional dictatorship of General Pervez
Musharraf - including communications between the two
governments concerning the arrest and prosecution of the
trial defendants, the former Balochistan MP and
government minister, Hyrbyair Marri, and his campaign
assistant Faiz Baluch.
Both men deny all the charges, stating that they are
peaceful, lawful human rights campaigners.
After three weeks of preliminary hearings and
adjournments, the original jury has been discharged. A
new jury will be sworn-in on Monday.
The latest adjournment follows submissions by defence
barristers, Henry Blaxland QC and Dame Helena Kennedy
QC.
"The defence has already secured disclosure from the
prosecution that the Pakistan High Commissioner to
London wrote to the court on behalf of the new
democratic government of Pakistan. The High
Commissioner's letter advised that his government wanted
reconciliation in Baluchistan and opposed the
prosecution, effectively calling for the charges to be
dropped," according to human rights campaigner Peter
Tatchell, who is a personal friend and political ally of
the two defendants.
"Previously, the acting Interior Minister of Pakistan,
Rehman Malik, announced that terror charges against Mr
Marri in Pakistan have been cancelled; stating that the
case against him had been politically motivated. This
discredits the whole basis on which Marri and Baluch
have been charged in London," added Mr Tatchell.
"The defence lawyers dropped a bombshell in the opening
days of the trial, in early November, by seeking full
disclosure of discussions between the British government
and the regime of Pakistani dictator, Pervez Musharraf,
concerning the arrest and prosecution of the two
defendants.
"The defence want to establish the political motivation
of the prosecution by revealing the high level
complicity between the Musharraf dictatorship and the
British Foreign Office, Home Office, police, security
services and the Crown Prosecution Service, which
reportedly sent CPS officials to Pakistan to help
Musharraf's men draw up the evidence against the
defendants.
"The request for disclosure has thrown the prosecution
off balance and created panic in the government. The UK
authorities do not want to reveal the relevant documents,
as these are likely to demonstrate that they worked
hand-in-glove with Mushararf's agents.
Hence the adjournment, to give government ministers time
to decide what, if anything, they should disclose.
"There are fears that the government, police and
security services might use 'national security' as an
excuse to withhold truly damning evidence showing
connivance between the British authorities and
Musharraf's anti-democratic regime.
"The defence plan to show that British government
collaborated with the illegal regime of Pervez Musharraf,
which overthrew the democratically-elected government of
Pakistan in 1999.
"This collaboration included illegally arming the
illegal Musharraf regime to enable it to prosecute an
illegal war in Balochistan.
"British military equipment was supplied to Pakistan. It
is likely that this equipment was used in Pakistani army
operations in Balochistan, where the Pakistani forces
have perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The defence has argued that the whole trial is an abuse
of legal process, on the grounds that Pakistani military
forces committed war crimes in Balochistan and that it
is therefore inappropriate to prosecute the two
defendants who were merely seeking to protect their
people against these atrocities. This abuse of trust
argument has been rejected by the judge, Mr Justice
Henriques.
"The defence has also submitted that the defendants
acted in self-defence to prevent human rights abuses in
Balochistan. The judge has also rejected this argument.
"The judge accepted the Baloch people are an oppressed
minority, and that they have been victims of war crimes
and crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the
Pakistani military, police and intelligence services.
These crimes include the indiscriminate bombing of
civilian areas, extra-judicial killings, disappearances,
torture, detention without trial and collective
punishments - all of which are illegal acts under
international law.
"The judge has, however, insisted that despite this
persecution and terrorisation by the Pakistani state,
the Baloch people do not have the right to use violence
to defend themselves and that anyone who supports or
condones armed resistance groups in Balochistan is
endorsing terrorism, which is a criminal offence under
UK law.
"According to this argument, and according to a strict
reading of the UK's anti-terrorism laws, the millions of
people who supported the anti-apartheid struggle of the
African National Congress of South Africa were criminal
supporters of terrorism, and the heroic men and women of
the underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe
during WW2 were terrorists.
"If the anti-Nazi resistance was happening now, under
current UK law, the UK's Special Operations Executive
and the Maquis French resistance fighters would be put
on trial and jailed as terrorists. This is the madness
of the government's anti-terrorism legislation: good,
honourable, courageous people fighting a just cause are
branded terrorists, prosecuted and face imprisonment,"
said Mr Tatchell.
See the trial background briefing below.
Further information:
Peter Tatchell - 020 7403 1790
www.petertatchell.net
London terror trial - Defendants framed
Human rights activists on terrorism charges
UK colludes with Musharraf's agents
London UK - 3 November 2008
Two London-based human rights campaigners stand trial
today on terrorism charges, at Woolwich Crown Court in
London. The case is being heard by Mr Justice Henriques
and is expected to last six weeks.
"This trial will expose high level collusion between the
British government and the agents of the former
Pakistani dictator, Pervez Musharraf," according to
human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who is a
personal friend and political ally of the two defendants.
He stood bail for Mr Faiz Baluch.
"These men were framed by the Musharraf regime, to
silence their highly effective campaigning against
Pakistani human rights abuses in Balochistan," added Mr
Tatchell.
"The British government was blackmailed into arresting
them. Musharraf's agents issued an ultimatum to the UK
authorities: arrest these men or we will halt all
cooperation in the war on terror. The Labour government
caved in to these demands from Musharraf's dictatorship.
It decided these men were expendable for the so-called
greater good of anti-terrorist cooperation with the
Pakistani regime," said Mr Tatchell.
The defendants are Hyrbyair Marri and Faiz Baluch. They
are accused of preparing acts of terrorism abroad -
charges they strenuously deny. Both men have been
law-abiding citizens. They fled to Britain to escape
persecution by the military coup leader and tyrant,
General Pervez Musharraf.
Mr Marri is represented by Henry Blaxland QC and Jim
Nichol of TV Edwards Taylor Nichol solicitors (020 7272
8336) and Mr Baluch is represented by Helena Kennedy QC
and Gareth Peirce of Birnberg Peirce solicitors (020
7911 0166).
Mr Marri is a former MP and government minister in the
regional assembly of Balochistan - a previously
independent state, which was invaded and annexed by
Pakistan in 1948, and which has ever since been under
Pakistani military occupation.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan and the Asian Human Rights
Commission have documented and condemned severe and
widespread human rights abuses by the Pakistani armed
forces in Balochistan - abuses that amount to war crimes
and crimes against humanity, including the
indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas and the
systemic use of torture. In one of the most gruesome
recent abuses, human rights campaigners allege that
Pakistani soldiers boiled to death four Baloch prisoners
in April this year.
Mr Marri's father, Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, a renowned
Baloch national leader, attended Queen Elizabeth II's
coronation in 1953, along with other world dignitaries,
as a guest of the British government.
His uncle is Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, the UN Special
Representative to Sudan and the former Pakistan
Ambassador to the United States, and his wife is the
great grand daughter of the first Prime Minister of Iraq
(1920-1922), Abdul Rahman al Gillani.
Mr Marri and Mr Baluch, were arrested by police in
London last December. Mr Marri spent four months in
Belmarsh high security prison, and Mr Baluch eight
months.
"The police and security agencies in the UK have pursued
these terror charges based on evidence provided to them
by Musharraf's dictatorship - a dictatorship that the
arrested men campaigned against," said Mr Tatchell.
"Our government has ignored the fact that Musharraf's
henchmen in the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI,
are notorious for framing political opponents,
especially Baloch nationalists.
"Marri and Baluch have been set up by Musharraf's agents
because of their highly effective exposure of Pakistan's
war crimes and crimes against humanity in annexed
Balochistan.
"This belief has been reinforced by the acting Interior
Minister of the new democratic government of Pakistan,
Rehman Malik. He recently announced that terror charges
against Mr Marri in Pakistan have been dropped; stating
that the case against him had been politically motivated.
This discredits the whole basis on which Marri and
Baluch have been charged in London.
"Marri's and Baluch's arrest came just a few months
after Musharraf demanded that the British government
arrest Baloch activists in London. In exchange,
Musharraf offered to hand over Rashid Rauf, implying
that action against the Baloch activists was a
precondition for surrendering Rauf to the UK. Rauf is
wanted in this country in connection with the 2006
Islamist terror plot involving liquid explosives on
trans-Atlantic airliners, which resulted in the
conviction of three men in London in September. He is
also sought in connection with a murder in the UK.
"The arrest in London of Marri and Baluch took place two
weeks after Pakistani government agents assassinated
Marri's brother, Balach Marri, a prominent Baloch
nationalist leader.
"Prior to Marri's arrest, Musharraf's regime made
repeated representations to the UK government that he
was wanted on terrorism charges in Pakistan - charges
that have now been dropped by the Pakistani authorities.
"Soon after Musharraf met Gordon Brown at Downing Street
in January this year, he held a press conference for
Pakistani journalists where he allegedly denounced Marri
as a terrorist and praised the British government and
police for cooperating with his regime.
"Claims of connivance are credible. For nine years, the
UK's Labour government supported Musharraf's
dictatorship politically, economically and militarily,
despite him having overthrown Pakistan's
democratically-elected government in 1999. Labour sold
him military equipment that his army uses to kill
innocent Baloch people. The US supplies the F-16 fighter
jets and Cobra attack helicopters that are used to bomb
and strafe villages.
"Marri is an unlikely terrorist. He is a former
Balochistan MP (1997-2002), and was the Minster for
Construction and Works in the provincial assembly in
1997-1998. He fled to Britain in 2000, fearing arrest,
torture and possible assassination by Musharraf's men.
"One of his brothers is Mehran Baluch. He is the Baloch
Representative to the UN Human Rights Council. He was
the subject of an attempted extradition plot last year
by Musharraf's regime, on trumped up charges.
"The arrest of Marri - together with the murder of one
brother and the attempt to frame another brother - looks
like a systematic attempt to target his family and crush
three leading voices of Baloch dissent.
"A former British Protectorate, Balochistan secured its
independence in 1947, alongside India and Pakistan, but
was invaded and forcibly annexed by Pakistan in 1948.
The Baloch people did not vote for incorporation. They
were never given a choice. Ever since, Balochistan has
been under military occupation by Islamabad. Baloch
demands for a referendum on self-rule have been rejected.
Democratically elected Baloch leaders who have refused
to kow-tow to Pakistan's subjugation have been arrested,
jailed and murdered.
"The Asian Human Rights Commission reports that
Pakistani army raids have resulted in 3,000 Baloch
people dead, 200,000 displaced and 4,000 arrested.
Thousands more have simply disappeared," said Mr
Tatchell.
Briefing on human rights abuses
Details of Pakistan's human rights abuses in Balochistan
are well documented by Pakistani and international human
rights groups, including:
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
http://www.hrcp-web.org/balochistan_mission.cfm
and
http://www.hrcp-web.org/images/publication/balochistan%20report/pdf/balochistan_report.pdf
Asian Human Rights Commission
http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/708
International Crisis Group
www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4373
Amnesty International
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGASA330042006
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=17865&prog=zgp&proj=zsa&zoom_highlight=Baluchistan
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/wr2k8/pdfs/pakistan.pdf
Watch this TV interview by Peter Tatchell with Mehran
Baluch, the Baloch representative to the UN Human Rights
Council:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15574249Ka8gKRt6
