Pakistan: National rights commission condemns police response of teargas and baton-charging of protesters as they demand justice for torture of labourer
"Pakistan rights commission condemns teargassing of protestors in Sindh province", 7 July 2021
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)...said it is outraged to learn that the Bheel community, which has been protesting against the alleged torture of a labourer was baton charged and teargassed by police.
An HRCP release said that a labourer named Dodo Bheel was tortured by Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company's security guards. The workers and their relatives had been holding sit-ins and demonstrations since Bheel's death.
The rights commission has supported the protestors' demands for an immediate and impartial inquiry into Bheel's death... He was one of the several workers detained by some security guards of the company for 14 days for interrogation over theft of scrap from a store in the Thar Coal project's Block-II, according to the bereaved family.
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According to the publication, in the late hours of Sunday, police moved into action and started baton charging the protesters and tried to arrest some of the 150 protesters