Pakistan
Journalist Protest Incites Police BrutalityPosted Oct 20 2007
Employees About 400 journalists and activists marched from a press club to parliament in Islamabad, calling attention to police brutality and their dissatisfaction with the government on Sept. 30.
The issue was brought to head after journalists, and others, protested the nomination of President Pervez Musharraf for another term, outside the Election Commission a day earlier. At that protest police used tear gas and a baton charge on the opposition group representing a pro-democracy movement, injuring dozens of people, including journalists, lawyers and a cabinet minister.
The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered the government's administrators to explain why such force was used.