POLICE BRUTALITY IN LAHORE ON LAWYERS FRATERNITY IS INHUMAN, UNLAWFUL
AND DESERVES SEVERE CONDEMNATION- ALTAF HUSSAIN

London-12 March 2007....Mr. Altaf Hussain, founder and leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) termed the police brutality inflicted on lawyers’ fraternity today in Lahore during a protest rally as inhuman, unlawful and that deserves severe condemnation. He added that peaceful protests and demonstrations are constitutional democratic rights and police brutality was an infringement of that democratic right. Mr Hussain demanded of the Government to take action against the police personnel responsible for inflicting torture upon the lawyers and instruct the law enforcement personnel to refrain from inflicting torture upon innocent and peaceful protestors.