Alifya Sohail
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Human rights reporter & producer @SochVideos.
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KARACHI: "He was bathed in acid. They specifically used a drug that is given as an anaesthetic to numb a muscle, but they injected it directly into Mir’s vein. After that, you are not capable of moving enough to make any noise or resist; but you feel all of the pain. All of it."
Alifya Sohail64,835 views • 1 month ago
On the day before a likely 7–14 year jail sentence, human-rights defenders and lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chatta made their position plain: they won’t back down from their principles to avoid or survive imprisonment. Tomorrow’s verdict in Islamabad won’t change the fact that the only thing on trial is the openly authoritarian state Pakistan has allowed itself to become.
Alifya Sohail117,203 views • 9 months ago
KARACHI: Hamdan’s mother thought she would finally give him the clothes she clutches on the day his remand was due to end. When he was eventually produced in CTD custody, his mother felt a strange relief. Jail, at least, meant he was alive. For fifty days, she waited to hand him the clothes but the CTD handed her his bullet riddled corpse. Today, the SHC has ordered an inquiry into Hamdan Baloch’s custodial death.
Alifya Sohail68,395 views • 6 months ago
QUETTA: “We already received threats and intimidation. This attack proved that someone can throw acid on us, shoot us, or rape us inside the hospital itself.” Dr. Mahnoor remains under treatment. The full extent of the damage to her eyesight and body will only become clear as her recovery progresses.
Alifya Sohail35,996 views • 3 months ago
All the Basants in the world can’t hide the ugliness that is Islamabad.
Alifya Sohail54,315 views • 7 months ago
Three weeks before she died, Amma Hauri saw the state imprison her lawyers. As Imaan and Hadi complete 150 days in jail, hundreds of mothers across Pakistan are praying for the couple’s release so that someone will fight for their children once again. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
Alifya Sohail26,187 views • 3 months ago
Before Aurat March could utter a word about the disappearance of Baloch women and underage girls, Sindh Police locked down Karachi Press Club and charged at the crowd. If a veteran artist like Sheema Kermani can be openly assaulted, one can only imagine what could be happening to Mahjabeen and Nasreena Baloch in the state’s torture cells.
Alifya Sohail57,318 views • 9 months ago
Who is Dr Sabiha Baloch? What kind of ‘terrorist facilitator’ stands in front of the state and consistently demands that political dialogue take precedence over violence to solve Balochistan’s problem? The Baloch who call for peace are the ones being jailed in the name of war.
Alifya Sohail28,213 views • 6 months ago
The lawyer who the state alleged was advocating for terrorists happened to represent hundreds of push cart vendors and ordinary residents of Islamabad whose lives and livelihoods are now being demolished by the CDA while she completes 88 days in jail. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
Alifya Sohail23,271 views • 5 months ago
We forgot about poet Mudassar Naaru who disappeared 8 years ago; his wife Sadaf who died of uncertainty 5 years ago; and their son Sachal, an eight year old orphan. Today, his dadi is forced to ask not only for her son’s freedom, but also for that of his lawyer, Imaan Mazari — the one person who didn’t forget. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
Alifya Sohail17,267 views • 5 months ago
In January, the PPP allowed Sindh police to assault dozens of Baloch women in Lyari, including me. In March, it allowed Sindh police to beat and arrest female activists, civil society members and journalists, including me. In November, it allowed Sindh police to illegally detain me for doing my job. If the PPP doesn’t want police violence on women recorded, it should stop using women’s bodies as targets in Sindh and Balochistan.
Alifya Sohail27,676 views • 10 months ago
At the All Parties Conference on Balochistan, BNP chief Akhtar Mengal asked: “What crime did Dr. Mahrang commit? When she came to Islamabad with women, elderly people and children, the state responded with water cannons and baton charges. And what was her demand? Just one thing: register an FIR. If they had simply registered that FIR on the first day, would things have reached this point? From Turbat to Gwadar to Islamabad, she made the same demand: let those who are deaf hear, and those who are blind see, what these families are asking for and why they have come. Are we really supposed to trust a judicial system where Dr. Mahrang is not even allowed to appoint her own lawyer, where the state imposes a government lawyer on her instead? And after she is sentenced, that very government lawyer is rewarded the very next day with an appointment as Advocate General.”
Alifya Sohail10,013 views • 2 months ago
