Yousaf Ali Khan: British-Pakistani activist held in Pakistan over London speech
BBC
18th February, 2021 08:50:10
A British-Pakistani activist, Yousaf Ali Khan, is facing trial in Pakistan on charges of sedition and conspiring to wage war against the state.
Mr Khan is accused of making incendiary remarks advocating violence in a speech in London broadcast on social media.
A British citizen, he heads the UK branch of a protest movement critical of Pakistan s powerful military.
Mr Khan has lived in the UK for some 20 years, and was visiting Pakistan for a family funeral when he was detained.
Yousaf Ali Khan was arrested on Saturday night, when a large number of heavily armed police surrounded the family s home in Swabi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in the north of the country, his brother told the BBC s Secunder Kermani in Islamabad.
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