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Letter from Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador Brings Relief to Torture Victim in Pakistan

Pakistani authoritarians referenced the intervention of Salem-News.com's Human Rights ambassador.

Baba Jan Hunzai
Baba Jan Hunzai photo courtesy: gilgitbaltistan.us/

(SALEM / GILGIT / HONG KONG) - After 12 days of torture at the hands of Pakistani police and military intelligence officers with ISI, government officials intervened, and medical attention has been provided to noted Pakistani activist Baba Jan Hunzai.

William Nicholas Gomes - Salem-News.com's
Human Rights ambassador, contacted officials in
different agencies over the Baba Jan torture case

The news of his finally receiving treatment, came with confirmation that the report we published yesterday; a call for government intervention, PAKISTAN: Baba Jan Brutally Tortured by ISI, was involved in the government's decision to in fact intervene and provide medical care.

Before ambassador William Nicholas Gomes contacted officials, he communicated with different international bodies including the UN and EU and US authorities, asking for the their immediate intervention on Baba Jan's behalf. Noted U.S. Professor and Author Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, British Pakistani military historian and political campaigner, had each written open letters demanding the release of Baba Jan Hunzai.

The medical examination of this activist confirmed the information; it mentioned the letter of our Human Rights ambassador that referenced Baba Jan having a broken finger.

Baba Jan and his friends send revolutionary greetings and their deep appreciation to all the friends and supporters who took the time to sign the petition and send letters to Pakistani diplomatic missions abroad. Their understanding is that this tactic really helped to end their isolation and made the authorities wake up to the fact that people around the world were monitoring day-to-day developments in the case.

We also give thanks to our readers of Salem-News for their continuous support of the letter and for the interventions on the issues raised by ambassador William Nicholas Gomes. His approach is having increasing effect and it is excellent to be able to report this achievement that the Internet allows to take place.

Background: William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights ambasador

Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes is a Bangladeshi journalist, human rights activist and author in Dhaka. As an investigative journalist he wrote widely for leading European and Asian media outlets.

He is also active in advocating for free and independent media and journalists’ rights, and is part of the free media movement, Global Independent Media Center – an activist media network for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of the truth. He worked for Italian news agency Asianews.it from year 2009 to 2011, on that time he was accredited as a free lance journalist by the press information department of Bangladesh. During this time he has reported a notable numbers of reports for the news agency which were translated into Chinese and Italian and quoted by notable number of new outlets all over the world.He, ideologically, identifies himself deeply attached with anarchism. His political views are often characterized as “leftist” or “left-wing,” and he has described himself as an individualist anarchist.





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