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Pakistan's Courageous Lawyers

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Amnesty International
Article date:
July 1, 2008
Author:
Hamilton, Caitlin
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The world watched as 1,500 Pakistani lawyers protested on February 9, 2008, outside the home of Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhury, the chief justice who was suspended by President Pervez Musharraf in 2007. The demonstration was part of a turbulent, courageous movement to defend the rule of law in Pakistan. Police stopped the lawyers some 200 yards from the house, pelting them with tear gas, ice-cold water and rubber bullets that left some with cracked skulls.

Less than a month later, Hamid Khan and Sahibzada Anwar Hamid, the former president and vice-president of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association, traveled to the United States to speak out against President Musharraf and bear witness to ...

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