Destroying Legality

Pakistan’s Crackdown on Lawyers and Judges

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• Map of Pakistan

• I. Summary

• II. Methodology

• III. Background

• The Lawyers’ Movement for Judicial Independence

• The judiciary and Musharraf

• IV. Laws Used To Detain Protestors

  Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (1960)

• Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997

• The “Sedition Law” – Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code

• V. Amendments to Laws Under Emergency Rule

• Ordinance LXVI of 2007 to amend the Pakistan Army Act, 1952

• Ordinance LXIX of 2007 to amend the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 

Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007 (President's Order No. 5 of 2007) 27

• VI. Beatings, Mistreatment and Arbitrary Detention of Lawyers

• Lahore

• Karachi

• Other cities

• Leaders of the Lawyers’ Movement

• VII. Judges Under Detention

• Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry

• Justice Rana Bhagwandas

• Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday

• VIII. Conclusion

• IX. Recommendations

• To the Government of Pakistan

• To the international community

• X. Acknowledgements

December 2007 Volume 19, No. 19(C)