According to details, on June 19, 2012, a group of his political opponents from PML-N, allegedly armed with pistols, iron rods, sticks and bottles of petrol, attacked his house. The mob damaged and looted his office and a portion of his house.
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission
By AHRC Statement | August 3, 2012
PAKISTAN: The chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights forced to leave his native place by the police and ruling party of Punjab government
Despite his position in parliament and long history of serving the people of the country, Mr. Riaz Fatyana, the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights (PCHR), which highlights the mockery of the rule of law and the extent to which the police work at the whims of political opponents has been victimised and punished by the very institutions which are supposed to be protecting him.
Mr. Fatyana has been illegally detained and implicated in the attack on his own house in which it was razed to the ground.
Mr. Fatyana was exonerated from all charges but has been displaced from his own native place by the police acting on the instructions of a family member of a retired senior judge of the Supreme Court and the ruling party in the Provincial Government.
Mr.Fatyana and his family have been forced to move to Islamabad, the capital.
According to details, on June 19, 2012, a group of his political opponents from PML-N, allegedly armed with pistols, iron rods, sticks and bottles of petrol, attacked his house.
The mob damaged and looted his office and a portion of his house.
During the attack hooligans burnt seven cars and 17 motorcycles parked outside Mr. Fatyana’s residence and set fire to the furniture and electronic equipment which was completely destroyed.
The police station was just half a kilometer from Mr. Fatayana’s residence but no one came until two hours after the incident when everything had been burned to ashes.
Mr. Fatyana had requested the District Police Officer (DPO), Mr.Mohammad Ahsan Younas, to take appropriate security measures a day before the attacks. However, no preventive measures were taken.
The DPO, according to reports, instead of providing him protection disarmed his guards and gave the attackers free access to his office which was then destroyed. In this riot many persons were injured.
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, Mr. Fatyana was threatened by the police officials that he should not contest elections of the National Assembly in the coming elections otherwise he and his family would face more problems.
He was released on the intervention of the Senior Political leadership of the country, but the police arrested his close associates.
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