Pakistani actors are speaking up and condemning the horrendous lynching of teenage boy Rehan over alleged theft in the Bahadurabad area of Karachi and demanding justice for the 17-year-old boy.
#JusticeforRehan started trending on social media yesterday as people expressed their horror over the condemnable incident.
Oh my God my heart. How could they do that?? How could they kill a boy? Torture him? How did not a single person stop it!!!! We have become so bloody desensitized we freaking record videos calmly while someone is beaten to death!!! #JusticeForRehan
— Mahira Khan (@TheMahiraKhan) August 19, 2019
To the poor teen from baharaduabad who was killed mercilessly on a mere suspicion of burglary (just a suspicion). They tortured him for two hours and did not stop even though there was a call to prayer (azaan) in the background. #RIP kid, your crime is that you were born poor.
— Armeena Khan (@ArmeenaRK) August 18, 2019
Beating a teenager to death. What has this world come to. An example needs to be set so that this kind of a hideous crime is never committed again. #justiceforRehan
— Bilal Ashraf (@IamBilalAshraf) August 19, 2019
I am shattered and tongue-tied to see what happened with poor #Rehan 💔
After seeing people making videos of a kid dying forces me to lose faith in Humanity.
I request our respectable PM @ImranKhanPTI to take an immediate action against it! #JusticeforRehan
— Saba Qamar (@s_qamarzaman) August 19, 2019
Rehan was like many other teenagers striving for better days & in the process he did what was best as per his knowledge and capacity. They could have shown him the right way to improve his life than just killing him.Children make mistakes...should we kill them?#JusticeForRehan
— Dr. Shaista Lodhi (@IamShaistaLodhi) August 19, 2019
Rehan was killed after brutally being tortured over accusations of stealing from a bungalow in the Bahadurabad area of Karachi.
The bungalow’s owner and neighbours tied Rehan by his hands and beat him. A video circulating on social media showed the teenager unable to move, with his hands tied to a metallic grill and his pants forcefully taken off.