Lawyer and rights activist Imaan Mazari and husband, Advocate Hadi Ali Chattha, were arrested by police on Friday, reportedly in a case related to an altercation outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC). They were arrested from the IHC Bar’s van on their way to the district and sessions court in Islamabad from the bar’s office.
The police confiscated the phones of both Mazari and Chattha, and shifted them to womens police station. Sources said that they have been arrested in the case related to an altercation case outside the the Islamabad High Court. An anti-terrorism court in the capital had dismissed the bail applications of Mazari and Chattha in this case on Thursday due to their absence in the hearing. The case was registered on the complaint of IHC Bar President, Wajid Ali Gilani, over a heated exchange of words during a protest outside the bar office. Both had filed pre-arrest bail applications in this matter.