Iqbal Kazmi
human rights activist
Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi is a Pakistani human rights activist based out of city of Karachi. He was a correspondent for the Human Rights Commission South Asia and the chief editor of Weekly Special Report. He is known to have registered cases against K-Electric, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, Government of Sindh and for IDPs. He moved the Sindh High Court for judicial inquiries into the Ashura blast and targeted killings in Karachi. He also moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) challenging the eligibility of the beneficiaries.
Kidnapping
Amnesty International reported that Iqbal Kazmi was abducted on 6 June 2007. He was reportedly tortured and he later regained consciousness the following day
in a park in the Clifton area of Karachi. His kidnappers told him that he would be killed unless he left the city by 12 June 2007.
On August 1, 2007, the wife of Iqbal Kazmi was kidnapped while she was on her way to high court to meet her husband who had been arrested on fraud charges on 12 June 2007.
The Police refused to register an FIR against the assailants.
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