Senior Pakistan Judges Allege Intimidation, Torture by Military-Run Spy Agency
Voice of America
FILE - Lawyers are seen gathered outside Pakistan's Supreme Court in Islamabad, April 4, 2023.
A majority of federal High Court judges in Pakistan have jointly accused the country's military-run spy agency of intimidating them and their relatives through abduction, torture, and secret video surveillance inside their bedrooms to influence judicial outcomes. In a rare letter this week addressed to mostly Supreme Court judges, including the chief justice, six out of eight members of the Islamabad High Court documented the allegations and sought their intervention to resolve the complaint.
Myanmar's nationals who crossed the border to seek shelter in Bangladesh are escorted back to their country by ships at Cox's Bazar on April 25, 2024. Bangladesh on April 25 sent home nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers and civil servants who fled to escape rebel attacks. FILE - Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army as Bangladesh border guards stand guard in Bangladesh, Feb. 5, 2024.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024. A still from a video released by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on April 24, 2024, shows a man who identified himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the hostages abducted from a music festival in Israel during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.