Pakistan: Political prisoner says 'protests saved us from torture'
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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 29/07/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1073">Peter Boyle</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Two leaders of the Labour Party Pakistan and the Progressive Youth Front (PYF) narrowly escaped torture by a special interrogation unit due to prompt protests in Pakistan and around the world, Farooq Tariq, LPP national spokesperson for the LPP, told <em>Green Left Weekly</em>.</p>
<p>Baba Jan and four comrades were jailed last September for standing up for people's rights in the Hunza Valley, in the remote province of Gilgit-Baltistan, after their villages and farmlands were flooded in 2010.</p>
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