Freedom House filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of Idris Khattak, a well-known human rights defender in Pakistan. Khattak is serving a 14-year prison sentence for his peaceful human rights work, which included documenting repression of the Pashtun minority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and enforced disappearances there. The petition asks the WGAD to declare his detention arbitrary and unlawful.
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