PTI’s Shireen Mazari arrested again shortly after securing bail from IHC

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former human rights minister, and senior PTI leader Shireen Mazari was arrested from outside Adiala Jail soon after Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered her release.

Mazari, 57, was arrested for a second time shortly after being released from Adiala Jail, her daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari said.

Shireen’s daughter lamented that her mother was arrested again without a warrant, saying the law enforcers had no explanation for the action.

Senator Falak Naz's family and I (& our lawyer) were waiting outside Adiala Jail to receive ama and Falak Naz. Islamabad Police arrested them from outside the jail while we were waiting outside the exit they told us to wait at. We have no idea where they have been taken.

— Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir (@ImaanZHazir) May 16, 2023

Activists denounced the detention of defiant politician and slammed the incumbent government for using the law to target its rivals, the government however defended the action, saying that it was necessary to ensure that Mazari did not interfere with the investigation into the charges against her.

On Tuesday, Justice Mian Gul Hassan Aurangzeb of Islamabad High Court declared Mazari's arrest under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) illegal.

Earlier, Fawad Chaudhry, who avoided arrest by running inside the IHC, got relief after the high court barred the police from arresting him in an undisclosed case.