IJT activists hold demonstration

To express solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners staging hunger-strike in Israeli jails for the last 15 days, the activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), Punjab University, held a peaceful protest demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club on Sunday.
A large number of slogan chanting students, led by their leaders Naveed and Hafiz Hassan, were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans demanding release of prisoners of conscience and fundamental rights to them, under the UN Charter and Geneva Convention which the Israeli government had denied them.
Addressing the protestors, the leaders condemned the Pakistani human rights groups and political workers who, they said, had refrained from raising voice in support of Palestinian prisoners in their "battle of empty stomachs."
"The Palestinian prisoners were demanding basic rights under international laws and halting of cruel, inhuman torture methods of Israeli authorities some of which were copied by US troops in the Abu Gharib Prison in Iraq which shocked the whole world", they said.
The IJT leaders lashed out at the world human rights watch bodies for what they said their 'criminal silence' on the matter and allowing Israelis to continue their torture on Palestinian civilians arrested for political reasons.
They praised Palestinians for single handedly defending the Al Quds and first Qibla of Muslims without any practical support from the rest of the Ummah.