{"id":6377,"date":"2018-06-22T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T08:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:10:01","slug":"threatening-activists-family-is-cowardly-hrcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/threatening-activists-family-is-cowardly-hrcp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Threatening activist\u2019s family is cowardly\u2019: HRCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Press release<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Threatening activist\u2019s family is cowardly\u2019: HRCP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lahore, 22 June 2018<\/strong>. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is appalled to learn that blogger and human rights activist Ahmad Waqass Goraya continues to face harassment and intimidation. Mr Goraya, who went missing in early January 2017, alleged that he was abducted, held and tortured by security agencies for three weeks. Although he was later released, it is now his family that is being targeted: Mr Goraya has said that, on 20 June, his elderly parents were threatened directly with abduction and torture to \u2018teach me a lesson\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued today, HRCP has said that it \u2018unequivocally condemns this latest attempt to cow human rights defenders into silence. To use a person\u2019s vulnerable elderly parents as leverage is nothing short of cowardly. That Mr Goraya has reportedly been warned to refrain from tweeting or writing, in his words \u201cat least till the elections\u201d, is an ominous sign at such a critical point in Pakistan\u2019s democratic development.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has also expressed its alarm \u2018at the growing frequency with which human rights defenders are being targeted. HRCP calls for a public and transparent investigation of the incident to make it clear that such callous attempts to intimidate human rights defenders or their families are unacceptable and unconstitutional. 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