Pakistan: Editor of banned Islamist weekly 'Wajood' released on bail PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 16 September 2005
Mohammed Tahir, editor of the Islamist weekly "Wajood", was freed on bail on 9 September 2005 by the Supreme Court of Sindh province. He was on arrested on 19 July and placed in custody under Article 153 of the Pakistani Criminal Code for publishing excerpts of a book deemed to be an incitement to religious hatred.

 

 

(RSF/IFEX) - Mohammed Tahir, editor of the Islamist weekly "Wajood", was freed on bail on 9 September 2005 by the Supreme Court of Sindh province. He was on arrested on 19 July and placed in custody under Article 153 of the Pakistani Criminal Code for publishing excerpts of a book deemed to be an incitement to religious hatred.

"Friday Special" deputy editor Abdul Latif Abu Shamil was freed on bail on 5 August by a judge in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.

"Wajood" and two other Islamist weeklies, "Zarb-e-Islam" and "Friday Special", were banned in August by the Sindh government on the same grounds.

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