International Human Rights Council Hong Kong (IHRCHK) has launched an appeal for the release of 19-year-old Baloch student and other missing persons.
According to an urgent case published on the website of the campaign group, IHRCHK says that it has received information about the continuous disappearances of nationalists and persons from religious sects.
IHRCHK has said that the disappearances have become a common phenomenon in Pakistan and judiciary has completely failed to recover the missing persons.
The urgent case also details the disappearance of 19-year-old Baloch student Mohammad Sadiq, who was ‘kidnapped by law enforcement agencies’ on 27 August. TBP had published the news of Sadiq’s disappearance in August.
Sadiq was arrested and subsequently disappeared allegedly by state forces from Mashkay, Awaran during his marriage ceremony.
According to IHRCHK, the local police had refused to file the first information report of Sadiq’s disappearance as the area is under military control.
‘The Mashkay area has been virtually changed into cantonment and many families have left the area owning to continuous searches by the men in uniforms,’ IHRCHK said on its website.
The campaign group said that thousands of nationalists and others have also gone missing from Sindh and Pashtunkhwa.
IHRCHK said that it will write letters to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) about the issue.