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to a seven-day sit-in by the families of the prisoners at
Aliabad, Hunza. The sit-in started on October 4 at the College Chowk in Aliabad, the families demanded the release of the 14 incarcerated men saying the terrorism charges on them were false and the prisoners were punished for raising their voice for the rights of victims of Atabad disaster. The sit-in continued for seven days, on the seventh day Gilgit-Baltistan's interim government held talks with the families of the incarcerated men and assured them that the prisoners would be released before November 30, 2020.
110:. He was sentenced to 71 years in jail by the Gilgit-Baltistani courts on charges of terrorism and of inciting public against the state during the Aliabad incident. Jan was released from jail on November 27, 2020, after the Gilgit-Baltistani government agreed to release all the 14 people due to a week-long Aliabad sit by the families of the incarcerated. He was the former vice-president and now is the president of
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Jan and the other 13 people incarcerated for the 2011 Aliabad incident were finally released on or before 27 November 2020. Jan, Iftikhar
Hussain and Shukoorullah Baig were the last to be released, the eleven others were released in October or November the same year. The release was made possible due
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Attabad village and blocked Hunza River, forming a 23 km lake which submerged several villages and left over 1,000 people homeless. Baba Jan organized the displaced people to lobby the government for compensation and rehabilitation. While several families were compensated, some 25 families
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In the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan elections, the Awami
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Baba Jan was subsequently arrested and tortured, and charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act. In
September 2011, an anti-terrorism court sentenced him and eleven other activists to life imprisonment. Human rights organizations have demanded Baba Jan's release, and an international petition for his
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rejected Jan's nomination papers on the grounds of being a convict serving a jail term. On 4 May 2016, a court accepted an appeal filed against the rejection of his nomination papers and allowed him to run. The supreme appellate court of
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Aliabad Hunza. A massive
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postponed the election for a period of three weeks to complete hearing of two cases pending charged against Jan and ultimately upheld the returning officer's decision, thus forcing Jan out of the 2016 Hunza by-elections.
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was due to travel. Police fired teargas and gunshots to disperse the protesters for the Chief
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had still not been compensated. On 11 August 2011, some of those families protested by blocking
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