Baloch Community in Sweden: BSO-azaad, BUC and Baluch Community Sweden marked International Torture day

United Nations has designated 26th June as the International Day against Torture. This day is designated to emphasize the importance of the right to personal dignity and security for all individuals around the world. It is the day to remember that each person’s rights are protected and guaranteed within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On 26 June 1987 the Convention against Torture came into force. It was an important step in the much-needed process of globalising human rights and acknowledging that torture, and all forms of inhuman or degrading treatments or punishments, are absolutely and universally illegal.

Baluch Community in Sweden, BSO-azaad and BUC (Sweden) organised a joinet protest in GOTENBOURG SWEDEN on 26 June, the International Day in support of torture victims. Talking about the importance of the International Day in support of torture victims the Baloch protester said that like other occupied Nations around the world the Baluch people have also been facing torture, death, destruction, extra judicial killings and arrests and enforced disappearances since the illegal occupation of their motherland by the states of Iran and Pakistan. Both Islamic states have committed unprecedented atrocities in Baluchistan. Many hundreds of Baluch political activists have been tortured and killed under torture in detention. Those who have survived the ordeal are left with permanent emotional and physical disabilities.

At present around 8,000 Baluch political and student activists have been forcefully disappeared by Pakistani state intelligence agencies. Hundreds are behind bars for crimes they did not commit. The situation of the Baluch people is not any better under Iranian occupied Baluchistan. No single day goes by without arrest, imprisonment, torture and execution of a Baloch person. He strongly condemned the Human Rights Organisation for their silence on the gross torture and mistreatment of thousands of Baloch political and student activists at the hands of Pakistani intelligence agencies. We appealed all free born and human loving people to raise voice against the Human Rights violations in Balochistan.

Today we are protesting here to expose the atrocities of Iran and Pakistan against the innocent people of Baluchistan. We want to record and express our opposition against any type of torture. We also want to show our solidarity with the victims of torture in all other occupied territories.

At present there are several Baloch activists in the custody of Iranian Intelligence services and after the harrowing death of the two Baloch, their families fear that the rest of the activists might also be killed in the same manner.

The kind of torture Baluch forced abducted person suffer at the hand of Pakistan’s military intelligence and Para-military forces include; sensory deprivation, painful shackling, severe beatings, electric shocks, denial of medical care, being blindfolded and hung from the ceiling by their wrists, and subjected to repeated humiliations, indignities and barbarism for months, even year.

The Asian Human Rights Commission has already reported that 52 torture cells are run by the Pakistan army, please see following link

http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2008statements/1574/