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| Over 200 TLP activists booked under sedition, other charges in Rawalpindi |
| 2018-11-28 |
| [DAWN] As many as 207 workers and activists of Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP), including its three local leaders, have been booked on the charges of sedition, blocking roads and damaging public property. Around 300 workers and activists of the religious group, who were locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during a major crackdown before its Nov 25 planned protest at Faizabad, were on Monday sent to Mianwali and Bhakkar prisons. Besides, 190 individuals, including 97 arrested by the Islamabad police, were being kept in the Adiala jail. Of the 207 workers and activists, 102 have been identified and nominated in three FIRs registered with the Waris Khan, City and Rawat police on charges ranging from sedition to creating law and order, damaging public property, blocking roads and violating Section 144. On the other hand, 16 activists arrested in Attock under the Anti-Terrorism Act were produced before an ATC court here which handed them over to the police on a seven-day remand. |
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