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Sunday, December 09, 2007
European lawyers to protest outside Pakistani embassies on 10th
Staff Report
LAHORE: Lawyers’ associations across Europe will protest outside Pakisani high commissions in their respective countries on World Human Rights Day (Dec 10) to express solidarity with the civil society, lawyers and students in Pakistan protesting against the emergency rule and the crackdown against the judiciary. According to a Campaign for Democracy and Rule of Law in Pakistan (CDRLP) statement on Saturday, European human rights activists would organise protests on the platform of Council of Bars and Law Societies Europe (CCBE). CCBE President Colin Tyre said in a letter to the Pakistani high commissioner in Brussels that the CCBE represented more than 700,000 lawyers in Europe besides members of European Union bars. He said the CCBE through its Human Rights Committee placed great emphasis on human rights and the rule of law. The letter said the CCBE had unanimously adopted a resolution, in a meeting in Paris on December 1, calling for the restoration of the constitution of Pakistan. The reinstatement of sacked judges, release of lawyers and political activists was also the focus point of the meeting, it said. Colin asked the high commissioner to send the resolution to Musharraf to inform him how gravely the world viewed the current situation in Pakistan. The CDRLP statement also quoted Colin as saying that he had written a letter to President Pervez Musharraf to express his concern over the post-emergency situation in Pakistan. He told Musharraf that he had not seen any government undertaking that detained lawyers and judges would be released. Also, while addressing a Student Action Committee’s protest outside Lahore Press Club, CDRLP Secretary Sardar Khuram Latif Khosa said the CDRLP would continue its struggle till its demands were met.
Courtesy DailyTimes.com.pk