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ISLAMABAD: The brother and nephew of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi, including 86 workers and supporters of the party, were sentenced to 55 years in prison each by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi.
The ATC passed the verdict in a case related to riots and clashes with local law enforcement after the party chief was arrested in 2018.
Rizvi’s brother Ameer Hussain Rizvi and nephew Mohammad Ali, along with other convicts, were also ordered to collectively submit around Rs13 million in fines. Failing to do so would mean another 146 years imprisonment. The court also ordered the authorities to seize their movable and immovable assets.
After the judgment was announced, the convicts were moved to Attock jail by Punjab’s Elite Force under heavy security.
In November 2019, an ATC indicted Rizvi, party’s patron-in-chief Peer Afzal Qadri and others in a case registered after the party’s agitation and protests in the wake of Oct 2018 acquittal of blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi.
Rizvi and several senior figures were detained after they shut down major cities in protest at the acquittal of a Christian woman who had spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges.
When Rizvi was finally detained, authorities said he was not arrested, but merely put in “protective custody”. More than 3,000 TLP members were taken into protective custody in the wake of the protests.
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2139201/1-atc-sentences-tlp-chiefs-brother-nephew-55-years-prison/
The ATC passed the verdict in a case related to riots and clashes with local law enforcement after the party chief was arrested in 2018.
Rizvi’s brother Ameer Hussain Rizvi and nephew Mohammad Ali, along with other convicts, were also ordered to collectively submit around Rs13 million in fines. Failing to do so would mean another 146 years imprisonment. The court also ordered the authorities to seize their movable and immovable assets.
After the judgment was announced, the convicts were moved to Attock jail by Punjab’s Elite Force under heavy security.
In November 2019, an ATC indicted Rizvi, party’s patron-in-chief Peer Afzal Qadri and others in a case registered after the party’s agitation and protests in the wake of Oct 2018 acquittal of blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi.
Rizvi and several senior figures were detained after they shut down major cities in protest at the acquittal of a Christian woman who had spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges.
When Rizvi was finally detained, authorities said he was not arrested, but merely put in “protective custody”. More than 3,000 TLP members were taken into protective custody in the wake of the protests.
Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2139201/1-atc-sentences-tlp-chiefs-brother-nephew-55-years-prison/
