By: Zafar Iqbal, Eurasia Review, May 11, 2012
Prominent historian and philosopher Noam Chomsky and a dozen other
leading authors and activists have appealed for the immediate release
of five political prisoners who have languished behind the bars in
Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region for raising the voice of
victims of climate change.
Noam Chomsky and other 12 major personalities of academia, politics,
activism and journalism have called on the Government of Pakistan to
drop the charge it has manufactured against a leftist political worker
Baba Jan and his four fellow activists. The petition urges the Pakistani
regime ‘to treat them as political prisoners-not as terrorists.’ Tariq
Ali, Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, Simon Crithcley R C Young, Farooq
Tariq and others issued the appeal in order to highlight the miseries of
Pakistani campaigners who have allegedly suffered from state torture in
the jail and access of their lawyers has been restricted.
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