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Release No. 071218-01
December 18, 2007
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“’Pak security agencies release 100 terror suspects’”
19 Dec 2007, 1520 hrs IST,PTI
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NEW YORK: Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies have quietly set free nearly 100 men suspected of links to terrorism, few of whom were charged, warning them to keep their detention a secret, a media report said on Wednesday.
Those released are some of the nearly 500 men presumed to have disappeared into the hands of the Pakistani secret agencies cooperating with Washington’s fight against terrorism since 2001, the report quoted human rights groups and lawyers in Islamabad as saying.
Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, which are apparently trying to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system, warned detainees not to speak to anyone about their detention, yet fragments of their experiences have filtered out through relatives and their lawyers, the report said.
No official reason has been given for the releases, but as pressure has mounted to bring the cases into the courts, the government has decided to jettison some suspects and spare itself the embarrassment of having to reveal that people have been held on flimsy evidence in the secret system, the New York Times reported.”