Gulalai Ismail, a human rights activist from Pakistan, facing persecution by the Pakistani state authorities because of her human rights activism. She succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United  States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her. Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism,  and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail. On 2nd February, her father Professor Muhammad Ismail was arrested, he has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Ms Hina Jillani, a stalwart human rights defender, founder and Chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan spoke at the event calling the exile of activists a loss of Pakistan, a drainage of human rights community in Pakistan.

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