ATC orders jail to produce Imaan Mazari, husband via video link
The court acted after Adiala Jail failed to bring the couple to Friday's hearing in a case registered at Islamabad's Secretariat Police Station.
An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad has directed jail authorities to produce human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband, lawyer Hadi Ali Chattha, before the court through video link on Saturday.
Judge Tahir Abbas Supra issued the order while hearing a case registered against the couple at Secretariat Police Station. The court had earlier asked that both accused be produced in person on Friday, but Adiala Jail authorities did not bring them to the hearing.
After the no-show, the judge adjourned the proceedings until Saturday and ordered the jail administration to ensure that Mazari and Chattha appear through video link at the next hearing. Geo News reported that the judge said he was fixing the case for the next day and that both should be produced through video link.
Ua.News, citing Dawn, reported that the anti-terrorism court also returned petitions filed by Mazari and Chattha, though it did not specify what those petitions sought.
Mazari and Chattha are currently on judicial remand in Adiala Jail. They were arrested last week in connection with a case that includes charges of an anti-state narrative, incitement and interference in government affairs, according to police sources cited by Geo News.
Their arrest came hours after the Supreme Court suspended their sentences in a separate case involving social media posts and granted them bail against surety bonds of Rs200,000 each. The Supreme Court said the bail would remain in effect until the Islamabad High Court decides the matter, which is still pending.
In January, a district and sessions court in Islamabad sentenced Mazari and Chattha to 17 years in prison each under different provisions of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, or PECA. The couple challenged those convictions before the Islamabad High Court.
They were initially booked by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency under Sections 9, 10, 11 and 26 of PECA. The FIR alleged that their social media posts attempted to create divisions along linguistic lines.
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