26 December,2023 08:53 AM IST | Islamabad | Agencies
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Pakistani police on Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in Islamabad. Their release came days after protest organisers gave authorities a deadline to release all those detained.
The activists had travelled 1,600 kilometres on Thursday from Turbat, a town in Baluchistan province, to protest forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the militancy-ravaged southwest.
The protesters were mostly women and some had brought along their children, aged 7-12, when security forces used batons and water canons to disperse them. They wanted to draw attention to the case of 24-year-old Balaach Mola Bakhsh, who died in November while in police custody.
1.6k km
Distance protesters travelled
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