HYDERABAD: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan took out a big rally on Saturday to mark the World Human Rights Day.
Rally wa
s attended by human rights activists and members of civil society. People rallied from Sindh University’s old campus and culminated in front of press club.
Many people inclu
ding political and social workers, lawyers, journalists and teachers took part in the rally. HRCP had dedicated this year’s HR theme to media freedom so as to press the government ag
ainst undesired censorship and restrictions imposed on press.
Participants chanted slogans ag
ainst feudalism, contract system, unemployment and increase in patronized crime in the rural areas. The speakers at the rally condemned extra judicial killings under fake p
olice encounters and demanded its end. HRCP’s Sindh coordinator, Dr. Ashothama and professor Musta
q Mirani also participated in the rally.