UPDATE: Pakistan: Protest against the state of emergency in Pakistan and brutal attacks on civil society

Submitted by wluml on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 00:00

State control
[state] repression of dissent

"General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday November 3, 2007 and imposed the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) that suspends the Constitution and the fundamental rights of citizens, gags the media and forbids any form of dissent. This has drastically upset the already frail political setup prevalent in the country.