#justice for arif

[zmyaro]

“When we call police, we don't want bullets; we want HELP.”

“There is an adolescent mental health crisis. [Teachers] see it every day. But we don't use guns. If anything, we're expected to stand in front of the guns. It's our job to SAVE these kids.”

[dailydccomics]

Wonder Woman and the dark Justice League by Guillem March and Arif Prianto

[jesncin]

just binged all your maws meta and WOW i’m vindicated. never liked the show but especially for all the reasons you said, and it’s especially nice to know im not “siding with dudebros” for disliking it.

also extremely crazy that we had the same idea for lois almost?? in my head if dc would hire me i would write her as chinoy with special attention to how american occupation ties into her history… (personally my mom always wanted to be a journalist but felt it was safer to do something else…), reading your chindo lois is like WOW. YOU READ MY MIND.

one last question: i know it’s a bit passé now thanks to #him, but my mom and i watched lois & clark together and i think the show (at least, s1-2 really) still holds up well despite being from the 90s. have you ever seen it? silly fact: when my mom first watched it in the philippines, she legit thought clark could be filipino in that show 😭

omg I love how the jesncin-talks-maws tag is becoming a safe space for Based MAWS dislikers :'D Because it's rough out here! It's really unfair how online spaces in particular have created a black and white culture war over My Adventures with Superman so that no nuanced criticism can come out of it. It just rewards corporations for doing less than the bare minimum and validates them into producing more mediocre stuff. They don't need our protection!! And wow thank you for reading all that!

AAAAH A CHINOY LOIS WOULD BE AMAZING! I love how her history with American occupation could put a much needed critical look into "Truth Justice and the American Way". Man, I'd love for an Asian Lois that could help people like your mom feel seen like that :') I can only hope Chindo Lois comes close to doing something similar. Also special fact, Lois Liando's chindo dad (Yunus Liando) is loosely inspired off of Junus Nur Arif, a chindo journalist.

Oh I'm definitely aware of The Recent Things Wasian Superman Said (yikes) but I'm unfortunately really behind on my classic Superman-adapted media watch! I'm in a Young Justice watch right now but I'd love to check out older Superman shows. I totally see it though!! The wasian features are strong in this man.

[eretzyisrael]

by Dexter Van Zile

Somebody needs to tell the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), a prominent nonprofit in the Great White North, that if you live by the witch-hunt, you die by the witch-hunt. Two years after the NCCM helped oust Collin May, a well-regarded lawyer and scholar, from his post as director of Alberta's Human Rights Commission on trumped-up charges of "Islamophobia," the organization was helpless to stop the ouster of Birju Dattani—a Muslim activist with a troubling history of promoting anti-Zionist propaganda on the internet—from his post on Canada's Human Rights Commission.

The controversy over Dattani's anti-Israel messaging began soon after the Trudeau government appointed Dattani director of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, a body charged with, among other things, investigating and sanctioning people who post mean and scary things on the internet. Soon after his appointment, which took place in late June, Dattani was accused of using X, then called Twitter, to promote an article comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and another equating the Palestinians to the Jews during the Holocaust.

Soon after the allegations came to light, Dattani apologized to Jewish organizations for the harm caused by the posts in question. It was to no avail. The revelations prompted a review of Dattani's background, announced by Canadian Justice Minister Arif Virani on July 24. Virani initiated the investigation after it became apparent that the Privy Council, the body charged with vetting Dattani's background, dropped the ball.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), a prominent Islamist organization, jumped to Dattani's defense, declaring that he was the victim of a witch-hunt "based on misinformation and poorly sourced allegations."

Unfortunately for the NCCM, the allegations against Dattani were largely confirmed by outside investigators, whose findings were released in mid-August. While speaking with investigators, Dattani claimed he promoted the offensive articles not because he agreed with them, but because he wanted his Twitter followers to see them.

The investigative report stated: "Mr. Dattani advised that the reason for this was that his understanding of 'Twitter ethics' were that one didn't 'comment' on the links that one was tweeting. A tweet, for him, was the equivalent of saying 'look at this' without comment."

But the tweets were only part of the problem, with Dattani admitting to investigators that, in early 2015, he unwittingly appeared on a panel in London that included a speaker from Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). It's a troubling admission given that HT is a South Asian Islamist organization that seeks Israel's destruction as part of a larger campaign to establish a global caliphate.

To make matters worse, Dattani admitted to appearing on a panel with Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay who was once "a confirmed member of Al-Qaeda" and, according to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, "penned a book in which he freely admitted that he was a jihadist." Dattani appeared on these panels while using the pseudonym of Mujahid, which in some contexts, describes someone committed to a holy war, or jihad, on behalf of Islam.

[agp]

The federal government unveiled its long-awaited online harms bill, creating a new hate-crime offence that carries a penalty of life imprisonment in the most egregious cases, and requirements for tech platforms to remove child pornography within 24 hours.

The sweeping legislation, introduced in the Commons by Justice Minister Arif Virani, would make online platforms swiftly take down child-sexual-abuse material, as well as content that bullies or sexually victimizes children or induces a child to harm themselves. The platforms would also have to remove any sexual content posted without consent.

good thing so many people believe trans women are safe to show children and dont induce children to harm themselves by giving them big ideas just for existing around them

[dailyjsa]

Black Adam: The Justice Society Files: Cyclone

Writer: Cavan Scott

Artist: Maria Laura Sanapo

Colors: Arif Prianto

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Many in Canada’s legal community are expressing concern about how the overloaded court system could be affected by a Liberal bill that would make bail harder to access for some people facing criminal charges. Senators on a committee probing the legislation will enter the final phase of their study next week by going over the legislation clause by clause and suggesting amendments. Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani has encouraged the Senate to pass the bill quickly, saying the fact that all provincial and territorial governments pushed for the measures underlines their urgency. Police leaders also support the bill, saying these are much-needed reforms after a spate of high-profile killings by repeat violent offenders, who in some cases had been released on bail. But civil society groups and legal advocates representing people who are Black, Indigenous or otherwise marginalized say its measures could worsen the overrepresentation of such groups behind bars — something Liberals have promised to address — while failing to make communities any safer.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[scurvyratt]

Although I didn't like the way Said died, I do think that the only way his story could have ended "happily" was with his own death.

So to explain, Said was a jihadist imo. I know that term has an extremely negative and violent connotation these days, but I don't think that he was a terrorist or extremist lol. Jihad has nothing to do with terrorism: "In its most general meaning, jihad refers to the obligation incumbent on all Muslims, individuals and the community, to follow and realize God’s will: to lead a virtuous life and to extend the Islamic community through preaching, education, example, writing, etc." Many Muslims also refer to jihad as a struggle against oppression. So not every Muslim is a jihadist, but I think Said is due to the fact that he is an imam and civil rights leader.

There are also the concepts of "lesser jihad" and "greater jihad". Lesser jihad is more of a physical battle against those who are oppressing you or committing wrong doings. We can see this in Said when he partakes in the riot for example. Greater jihad is an inward battle against oneself. The struggle against greed, lust, ego, selfishness, evil, etc. There's a ton of examples that can be used for this, especially in the last two seasons when he loses it after he kills Adebisi lol. Also when he gives up on pursuing Cutler's (ex) wife for his cause.

Nowww how does this relate to his death? Well, being a martyr is also a big deal in Islam. Muslims believe that there are seven levels of heaven, and that those who die as martyrs automatically go to the highest level. There are many different ways that one can die as a martyr in Islam, such as dying during child birth or dying while fighting for your independence (everyone who has been killed in the current Palestinian genocide is considered a martyr). But another way, is to die in the pursuit of jihad.

I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore lol, but I think that death as a martyr was like, the perfect death for Said since he was so committed to his jihad, his people, and fighting for civil rights. Also because he could be very self righteous and wanted to be seen as a hero (though I do think he changed in the later seasons, especially after Adebisi. Me doing a character analysis when I don't even remember what happened ijbol). I don't think that any other ending would have been satisfying for him because his ultimate desire was for liberation/equal rights/justice, etc. and like obviously that will never be achieved lol....

Also yes, I do think that Said would probably be considered a martyr since he mainly dedicated his life to Islam and educating/helping others (even tho he was kinda a flop tbh...) and he was assassinated. I mean he even gave up the opportunity to leave prison just so he could stay with his boyfriend Arif the other Muslims.

I know some people say that Said's death was fitting for the show (sudden, random, and by a stranger) but likeeeee. Idk I just did not gaf about that Idzik dude like come on they couldn't have come up with anything else?

Source: https://www.unaoc.org/repository/Esposito_Jihad_Holy_Unholy.pdf

[terriwriting]

OTTAWA – With Conservative Premiers now freely using S. 33 to overrule any court ruling getting in the way of their agenda the federal government has announced plans to rename The Charter Of Rights & Freedoms to The Charter Of Long-Term Goals & General Guidelines “Now that the landmark Charter we have been celebrating and teaching students about for 30 years is basically a napkin with the words ‘please don’t’ written on it this seemed like the most appropriate course of action,” said Justice Minister Arif Virani. “At least this way people won’t get their hopes up that they still have rights that can’t be taken away at a moment’s notice.” ... “We look forward to rolling out The Charter Of Long-Term Goals and General Guidelines this fall, and we think law school students are going to have a lot of fun debating whether S. 7’s protections of life, liberty and security of the person is a goal or a guideline,” added Virani.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Helen Joyce

Published: April 2023

Being invited to talk at a conference for psychoanalysts in London last month was not, on the face of it, a surprise. The topic was trans identification in children; I’ve written a book on this and other trans-related issues. What was surprising, given the transactivist tactic of demanding “no debate”, was that the event went ahead as planned.

My refusal to agree that men who identify as women thereby become women means that when I’m invited to speak, there’s usually trouble. Last March I was asked to present at a conference for NHS psychiatrists — and disinvited after a smear campaign. The conference was eventually cancelled. When philosopher Arif Ahmed asked me to speak at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge in October, the college master emailed fellows and students describing me as “offensive, insulting and hateful”. I managed to give my talk, but had to shout to be heard over protestors outside.

The psychoanalysts’ event wasn’t entirely free of drama. During the morning, I and other critics of trans ideology described its spread through the medical profession, and the harm this is doing to gender-distressed children. As the session closed, a young man stood and denounced us as hatemongers, his voice and body trembling as he spoke. He compared us to the psychotherapists who, half a century ago, peddled “conversion therapy” — electrical shocks and nausea-inducing drugs aimed at turning gay people straight. 

I’ve heard opposition to “gender-affirming” care analogised to conversion therapy many times, and it’s absurd. This is the treatment pathway involving giving puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones to gender-distressed children, often as a precursor to surgery that will leave them sterile and lacking in sexual function. Most children sent down this path would have grown up gay if left to do so in peace; when they identify as the opposite sex, they become nominally straight. It’s the gender ideologues, in other words, who are the modern-day conversion therapists.

I’m hopeful that the event for psychotherapists going ahead with a critic inside the room is a sign that “no debate” is no longer an effective tactic. The would-be censors haven’t given up, however, only changed tactics. Instead of trying to silence us, they’re starting to argue. The way they do it says a lot about their worldview, in which subjectivity trumps objectivity, emotion trumps reason and words trump material reality.

At the heart of trans activism is a power play which seeks to impose trans-identified people’s inner feelings on the external world. Other people are expected to ignore the material fact of sexed bodies and “affirm” stated identities by the use of “preferred pronouns”.

Pronouns are not the only words now regarded as powerful enough to change reality. Take the rewriting of literary classics to remove racial slurs, often imaginary, and workplace training that purports to root out “implicit bias”. Both are based on the notion that words, rather than describing the world, shape it so profoundly that censorship can be a route to social justice. What makes a word worthy of being erased is entirely subjective: that someone claims to find it harmful, no matter how tenuous or outlandish that claim.

Laws, too, are moving away from objective tests. Hate crimes, which attract longer sentences, are those which the victim “perceives” to have been motivated by prejudice, whether or not that perception is reasonable. Scotland’s Hate Crime Act, not yet in force, will criminalise speech that merely “might” make a minority group feel “vulnerable” or “excluded”. As for “non-crime hate incidents”, as the Orwellian name suggests, these involve no crime and rely purely on perception. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has said that the police must stop routinely recording such incidents. They’ve already been told this by the High Court,  yet the practice continues. 

One reason for this elevation of subjective feelings over objective facts is a trend towards celebrating victimhood. Most early societies were what sociologists call “honour cultures”, in which might was right and maintaining status after an insult or injury meant exacting swift revenge. The rule of law saw honour cultures give way to “dignity cultures”, in which status is formalised in job titles and academic qualifications, self-control is admired and justice is dispensed by police and courts.

In their 2018 book The Rise of Victimhood Culture, sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning describe how honour and dignity cultures are giving way to a moral code which elevates the oppressed. Call-outs and cancellations, they explain, are status-raising tactics, in which people claim to have been harmed by problematic views and to have suffered micro-aggressions in order to don the mantle of victimhood.

The spread of victimhood culture has helped popularise novel gender identities (non-binary, agender) and sexual orientations (aroace, pansexual) since they allow people to claim membership of oppressed groups without experiencing any actual hardship. It is also driving the self-diagnosis of mental illnesses, from quotidian conditions such as anxiety and depression, to boutique ones such as multiple-personality disorder or a novel form of Tourette’s transmitted by TikTok. 

More generally, this is a culture that encourages young people to regard themselves as traumatised. According to Jonathan Haidt, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, US schools and universities have started to promote three pernicious falsehoods: that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; that feelings are a good guide to reality and action; and that life is a battle between good people and evil ones.

These dysfunctional beliefs, which Haidt dubs “anti-cognitive behavioural therapy”, promote mental fragility. They encourage people to feel fearful of ordinary words and to regard censorship as virtuous. The logic goes like this: being dis-agreed with makes you a victim; victims are good; people saying things you disagree with therefore deserve to be silenced and punished. This is the culture of “crybullying”: using claims of victimhood to harass others.

Haidt thinks social media, with its polarising and conflict-inducing algorithms, is largely to blame. Another culprit is the “post-modern turn” that was underway before the internet era, in which academics, activists and political theorists stopped thinking of reality as something that could be described objectively and studied empirically, embracing a radical subjectivity instead. 

To these, I would add smaller families and later childbearing. A record half of all women now reach 30 without having given birth. Until the past couple of decades, most childhoods involved playing without adults around, if not with siblings then with neighbours’ children whom you were expected to look out for. 

A growing share of young adults have missed out on these formative experiences. One consequence is that they are painfully ignorant of the ways in which children are different from adults. This is part of the reason so many young people give credence to gender-distressed children’s claims to “really be” members of the opposite sex. 

My younger son identified as a train for most of his waking hours between age two and age four. I put it down to a vivid imagination, read and watched Thomas the Tank Engine on repeat, and waited for him to move on. 

These kidults have also been denied the experiences that would enable them to outgrow the vices of teenagers, namely emotional incontinence and a crippling concern for the regard of peers. Looking after children teaches you to enforce boundaries and prioritise long-term interests over short-term desires. You learn how to say no when that makes you unpopular, to exercise self-control while others are losing it. The worst thing you can do when a child screams at you is to scream back. 

To me, that young man who accused me of supporting conversion therapy appeared never to have learned these lessons. His professed concern for gender-distressed children seemed performative, even narcissistic: more about making him feel good and look good to his political tribe than about what was right for those children. He was failing in the most important task of adulthood: understanding that it’s not all about you. 

[nfcomics]

BATMAN ONE BAD DAY BANE (one shot) • cover art • Giuseppe Camuncoli • Arif Prianto [Jan 2023]

A PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE DESTROYED BY VENOM! Bane broke the Bat--he's one of the only villains to ever truly vanquish the Dark Knight--but is that all he's ever accomplished? Decades from now, Bane is a washed-up wrestler reliving his glory days in the ring, defeating someone dressed like Batman every day. But when he discovers that there's a new source of Venom in the world, he'll do everything he can to shut down the facility it's coming from for good and make sure that no one takes the poison that ruined his life. An epic saga set throughout Bane's life, expanding on the hopes, dreams, regrets, and failures of one of DC's most legendary villains, brought to you by the iconic creative team of Joshua Williamson (Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, The Flash) and Howard Porter (The Flash, Justice League). For every 25 copies of all eight Premium Variant Covers ordered (200 copies total), retailers will be eligible to order one copy of the BATMAN ONE BAD DAY RAS AL GHUL "Lineup Compilation" Premium Variant Cover for free.

(W) Joshua Williamson (A) Howard Porter (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli - Arif Prianto

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Justice League: Gods and Monsters

Rating: PG-13

Director: Sam Liu

Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Michael C. Hall, Tamara Taylor, Jason Isaacs, C. Thomas Howell, Paget Brewster, Kari Wahlgren, Grey DeLisle, Larry Cedar, Eric Bauza, Penny Johnson Jerald, Dee Bradley Baker, Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Devall, Dan Gilvezan, Daniel Hagen, Josh Keaton, Arif S. Kinchen, Yuri Lowenthal

Release year: 2015

Genres: fantasy, action, science fiction

Blurb: Very different versions of the Justice League fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.

[seemabhatnagar]

Plot earmarked in the development plan can't be put to any other use

Mr Irwyn Fernandes Isidore & Ors v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors

Public Interest Litigation before Bombay High Court

Before Bench of Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar ACJ & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arif S Doctor J

Background

A PIL was filed by the petitioner for a direction to open all the reserved plots which are earmarked as Christian Cemeteries in the development plan of Thane city. An affidavit in reply is filed on behalf of the Municipal Corporation wherein the Municipal Corporation has given list of plots which have been earmarked as cemetery grounds in the development plan of the city of Thane.  Hon’ble Court didn’t find the remark satisfactory.

Observation of the Court

once the plots are designated as burial ground, cremation ground or Smashan Bhumi in the development plan, then they cannot be put to any other use other than the one designated.

Direction of the Court

The plots which have been designated as Cremation Ground/ Burial Ground/ Smashan Bhumi in the development plan will not be put to any other use other than the one designated in the development plan unless requisite procedure of law is followed for the change of user.

However, it is open to the Municipal Corporation to proceed to take requisite action in respect of the user of these plots contrary to the user designated in the Development Plan.

Seema Bhatnagar

[discoursedumpster]

/eternal facepalm/

I'm sorry, did we just achieve "the Jews probably even stole Palestinian HISTORY" levels of nonsense?!

First of all, the fact that almost every hand-wringing book or film about how Israel Also Stole Books Or Something is by Israeli Jews, including the one above, should TELL you how likely it is that there is a bunch of Palestinian history that's only written in Hebrew.

You don't think someone would have gone in there and written a detailed apologia about how terrible that was, translated it all into English and Arabic, and then put out several books and academic papers analyzing the contents?

Second, do you know how many Palestinians are bilingual in Arabic and Hebrew? Trilingual in Arabic, Hebrew, and English? How many Palestinian Israelis are bilingual or trilingual?

Like, not even touching the Jews here. Even assuming somehow ALL of Palestinian history was in Hebrew, it takes exactly one (1) bilingual Palestinian to go get it.

Israel's universities are full of Palestinian students and scholars. Even the guy who invented "academic and cultural boycotts of Israel," Omar Barghouti, did that while getting two separate graduate degrees at Tel Aviv University.

There would be entire frigging programs for this stuff.

Third, there were no family lineages wiped out back in 1948. There has been news coverage of entire families being wiped out by both Hamas and Israel over the past year, but not before then. Historians are going to have a hell of a time doing the past year justice, though.

And fourth, those looters were librarians in a war zone. The entire reason those specific copies of those books still exist is that librarians went and got them.

On that same note: happily, a fuckton of this stuff has been digitized.

Somebody got a grant in 2002 "to digitise the historical periodical collection located at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in order to create archival quality digital copies of the deteriorating newspapers and magazines. In addition, the project intends to create multiple derivative copies to extend access of these rare materials to scholars, students and the general public. The original collection includes 20 sets of historical materials that document the history of Palestine in the first half of the 20th century."

You can see them and read more at this link:

There's Palestine Nexus:

The curated repository, now boasting more than 40,000 objects, includes identification papers, official records, letters, diaries, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, and audio recordings, and even the first dual-language geography book chronicling the history of Palestine in Greek and Arabic, published in 1904.

Additionally, it houses the first “History of Gaza” penned and published in Arabic in the 20th century by ‘Arif Al-‘Arif and hundreds of documents covering the periods of Ottoman and British rule.

...It  also features the “Palestinian Arab Index, 1946,” a book that constitutes one of the most comprehensive and contemporary indices of books published in Palestine or by Palestinian Arabs in the first half of the 20th century. After years of treasure hunting across the region, which took him to Egypt, Turkiye, and Palestine, Foster’s visit to Gaza unearthed a unique collection spanning the social, political, and economic history of Palestine from the 1910s to the 1980s. Saleem Elrayes, an antiques dealer from Gaza City, had compiled a collection that chronicled the social history of Gaza during the 1948 war, documents related to his family business importing coal from Sudan in the 1910s, and a diverse array of maps depicting events in the Gulf, including Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The chronicle, named the Gaza Collection, was partially acquired by Foster, who transported it to the US and digitized the materials so that it could be accessed by scholars for free on Palestine Nexus.

It contains 40,000+ rare documents and 1,000+ rare maps on the history of Palestine, the Palestinians and the Middle East:

According to this 2014 writeup, there's a ton of exactly the shit you're looking for in Arab collections:

Today, the best collection of Palestinian records is held at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut. The vast majority of this is in Arabic (newspapers, memoirs, files of Palestinian political bodies from the Mandate etc) but there is a limited amount of correspondence in English with the Mandate administration.

Despite the scarcity of official records, there are a number of valuable private collections located in Palestine, especially in East Jerusalem. In particular the Budeiri Library and the Khalidi family library (both in East Jerusalem) contain a great deal of manuscripts, memoirs and letters written by Palestinian notables during the Ottoman and British periods. This is all in Arabic. This libraries can be extremely difficult to access and are not open generally to the public. Appointments must be made with the owners and access will only be given if they feel the topic of research is suitable.

This is what I've read historians saying overall: it's much, much harder, nearly impossible, to get to historical sources in Palestinian collections than it is to get into any kind of Israeli archives. They're just two very different cultural approaches to public access.

Then there's the Gaza Historical Database, which is evidently a collaboration between German and Israeli academics:

Our research is based on primary sources written in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew and a range of European languages, which are located today in archives in Turkey, Israel, Palestine and other countries.

Documents and data from these archives will help to reconstruct the political, social, and economic history of the population in the Gaza region, and thus constitutes a crucial step toward a better understanding of the complex social fabric of Palestine and the Levant, including such varied issues as relationships with the imperial center, rural-urban relationships, migration and demographics, and relationships between the state and the Bedouins.

The website claims it will be publicly available by 2022, which uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... *looking at my watch*

But idk, it says it has an interactive map and information about families and locations, maybe the whole thing is public and they just didn't update that part. Either way, it has a lot of interesting info about what they're studying.

And what the Central Archives in Gaza City reportedly held was mostly building plans, other details about the city's municipal buildings and infrastructure, and documents in the handwriting of notable figures. I would bet that at least some of that is available in here:

Frankly, most people care more about outrage bait than about actual history.

Still, at least I have the links here so I can go back and explore them.

Just a random thought but can you imagine how much information about Palestinians and our history exists in Hebrew sources and we don't have access to that bc the vast majority of us don't speak it, let alone read and write it?

esp because Israel destroyed our archives so there's probably information we don't know that was sealed into those archives and are now gone forever

[dr-jan-baloch]

Enforced Disappearances and Extrajudicial Killing in Kech District

On the morning of December 7, 2024, the bullet-riddled body of Naveed, son of Hameed, was discovered in the Jantri River, located in the Buleda area of Kech district. Naveed, a resident of Gali Bilida, had been missing since the evening of December 6, when he left home with his car and did not return.

Naveed's death is part of a disturbing pattern of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, linked to state forces. According to his family, Naveed had been actively pursuing the release of his cousin Uzair, son of Umeed, who was forcibly abducted just seven days earlier. Naveed visited a local military camp multiple times seeking Uzair’s release. On his third visit, he was detained, subjected to inhumane treatment, and later killed.

This tragedy follows a history of similar incidents within Naveed’s family. Earlier this year, his brother and cousin, Muslim Arif, were forcibly disappeared, with Muslim later being released. Despite the release, the trauma endured by the family remains profound. Naveed was a prominent advocate for the rights of forcibly disappeared individuals, actively participating in initiatives like the Baloch Raaji Muchi movement, which works to highlight the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) condemns Naveed's killing, calling on the global community to take immediate action. The IVBMP emphasizes that the continued silence of the international community could normalize such inhumane treatment of Baloch youth by Pakistani state forces. We urge human rights organizations, governments, and international institutions to raise their voices against these atrocities to ensure accountability and justice.

This incident is a stark reminder of the urgent need for global attention and intervention to address the systemic human rights violations in Balochistan, where families live in constant fear and despair.

[dailyjsa]

Black Adam: The Justice Society Files: Cyclone

Writer: Cavan Scott

Artist: Maria Laura Sanapo

Colors: Arif Prianto