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Imaan, Chattha challenge their jail trial

Pakistan Published 17 October 2026, 04:52 · archived 17 Oct 2026

RAWALPINDI: Human rights activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari, her husband, advocate Hadi Ali Chattha, on Friday challenged the jail trial before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in a case registered against the couple involving alleged violation of a security protocol and assaulting police personnel. The defence counsel, Riasat Ali Azad, filed the petition before ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra, during the hearing of the case at the makeshift court at Adiala jail. The petition says that the Chief Commissioner, who had no authority to issue the notification (jail trial) at all, let alone on a req...

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