{"id":2301,"date":"2008-01-26T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/activism\/london-demo-slams-musharrafs-rights-abuses\/2301\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T23:07:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T23:07:56","slug":"london-demo-slams-musharrafs-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/london-demo-slams-musharrafs-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"London Demo Slams Musharraf&#8217;s Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>Rights activists have staged demonstrations in London to denounce Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf&#8217;s &#8216;human rights abuses&#8217;. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, organized by human rights group Amnesty International, came on Saturday at Downing Street, prior to a meeting between Musharraf and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that free and fair elections will be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan&#8217;s judiciary,&#8221; said Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, 2007 Musharraf suspended Pakistan&#8217;s Constitution, fired much of the country&#8217;s senior judges and arrested thousands of opponents, most of whom were eventually released because of international pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An independent judiciary is vital for people to have an avenue to contest the results of this election conducted in an environment of bias and intimidation,&#8221; said Adams.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Brown to press Musharraf to rescind these measures, set up an independent election commission and a neutral caretaker government to oversee elections.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=40487&amp;sectionid=351020601\">SB\/RE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists have staged demonstrations in London to denounce Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf&#8217;s &#8216;human rights abuses&#8217;. The demonstration, organized by human rights group Amnesty International, came on Saturday at Downing Street, prior to a meeting between Musharraf and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday. &#8220;British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[85],"class_list":{"0":"post-2301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-demos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}