Aurat March participants holding placards. Photo courtesy of Amnesty International
LAHORE: A sessions court has dismissed a petition seeking an order for police to register a case against social activists Marvi Sirmad, Tooba Syed and over 200 unidentified participants in Aurat March held last month in Islamabad.
A citizen namely Khalid Mehmood, the petitioner, said the Ravi Road police SHO refused to lodge a FIR on his application. He pleaded that the participants in the march committed multiple criminal offences besides displaying objectionable slogans.
In his decision, Additional District & Sessions Judge Hafiz Rizwan Aziz observed that the Aurat March was a peaceful demonstration raising the issue of gender-based oppression and violence, a social issue that deserves attention. He said there had been no reported instance of violence or public disorder exercised by the participants in the march, and in fact the protests took place in broad daylight, in the presence of police pers
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