Urgent Plea: Activist Denounces Inhumane Treatment of Disabled Baloch Leader

Renowned human rights activist, Sammi Deen Baloch, has sounded an urgent alarm about the dire conditions of Bebigar Baloch, a disabled leader detained by Pakistani authorities for six months without any formal charges.

Through the social media platform X, Sammi accused the authorities of treating Bebigar, who relies on a wheelchair, inhumanely. He has been deprived of critical medical care, despite suffering from life-threatening illnesses requiring immediate surgery, according to medical advice. "Keeping him in jail under these conditions is effectively a slow death sentence," she emphasized.

Sammi condemned the state's brutal crackdown on political dissent in Balochistan, accusing the government of failing to distinguish between ordinary and disabled individuals. She urged international bodies to intervene, highlighting Balochistan's human rights crisis involving enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of political activists.

(With inputs from agencies.)