Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 22 Jun 2020, 11:37 am Print
Islamabad: Amid growing protests over his detention, 100 days have now passed since Editor-in-Chief of Geo and Jang Group Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman was arrested and kept behind the bars in Pakistan.
In the most recent development, a bench of the Lahore High Court adjourned the hearing in his bail petition in a 34-year-old land property case on the grounds that the bench had received the case files late, reported The News International.
There have been protests in Pakistan demanding his immediate release from prison.
Away from the country, press freedom organisations based in the US, Paris, UK and elsewhere have also demanded for his release.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman was arrested on 12 March by the NAB in Pakistan in a case concerning a property transaction that dates back 34 years to 1986.
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