70 PTI leaders, workers court arrest in Gujranwala

As many as 70 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staff and leaders on Sunday voluntarily offered themselves for arrest to the police in Gujranwala on the fifth day of the Jail Bharo Tehreek (fill the prisons motion).

Earlier this week, PTI chief Imran Khan had launched the motion geared toward pushing the federal government in direction of early elections, registering a protest towards the prevailing financial instability within the nation in addition to condemning the alleged crackdown on celebration leaders and activists.

In response to Categorical Information, numerous PTI activists gathered outdoors the ‘Jail Bharo’ camp within the district and dozens of celebration staff compelled themselves into 5 prisoner vans.

Taking to Twitter, former PM Imran hailed the PTI leaders and staff for popping out in “large numbers for court docket arrest motion”.

“Congratulations for breaking the chains of worry together with your junoon (ardour) & dedication,” he stated.

In the meantime, PTI chief Fawad Chaudhry in a press release stated that the police in Peshawar and Multan had refused to arrest the celebration staff through the ‘court docket arrest’ motion.

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He stated that greater than 200 staff are in several jails in Lahore and Rawalpindi, including that the detained activists had refused to file bail functions within the court docket.

Earlier at this time, Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah stated that the federal government would first direct PTI leaders and staff – who voluntarily offered themselves for arrests – to far-off jails earlier than sending them to prisons in Lahore or Rawalpindi.

Talking at a press convention in Islamabad, the minister stated that between 100 to 150 folks have so far courted arrests as a part of the PTI’s ‘Jail Bharo’ motion.

“Eighty per cent of the arrested ones are asking to be launched,” claimed Sanaullah as he revealed that every one members of the PTI’s drive have been taken into custody for 30 days.

“You wished to go to jail, so you could have been despatched there,” he stated mockingly, including that “we’re making you go to the jails so you may acquaint yourselves with the circumstances there”.

In the meantime, a number of petitions have been filed within the Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC), with complainants expressing fears that the arrested PTI leaders and staff could also be falsely accused of involvement in illegal actions to trigger them “most hurt”, including that they’ve been transported to “some unknown place” to “torture” them.