MOTHER OF AN MQM WORKER ILLEGALLY ARRESTED

8 July 1999

Today at around 6.45 p.m., the personnel of Kalakot Police Station, led by Inspector Chaudhry Faisal, cordoned off the Usmanabad area in Karachi. During this cordon off operation they raided the residence of Mairaj, a worker of MQM Unit 32 in Usmanabad, Karachi. As he was not present in the house, the raiding party ransacked the house and arrested his innocent mother. She was taken to the Kalakot Police Station and kept in illegal detention for several hours. During this illegal detention the personnel of Police continued to inflict torture upon her. The raiding party conducted house to house search and arrested many supporters of MQM.

MQM has strongly condemned the arrest of the mother of an MQM worker and termed this act of the Police as illegal and inhuman.