{"id":6733,"date":"2017-03-07T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:16:04","slug":"two-transgender-pakistanis-tortured-to-death-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/two-transgender-pakistanis-tortured-to-death-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Two transgender Pakistanis tortured to death in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saba Rani\/ Pahichan – Two transgender persons, both natives of\u00a0Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), died on Tuesday after being subjected to torture allegedly by Saudi police in Riyadh for dressing up as women in public.<\/div>\n

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Thirty-five transgender people were arrested by a law enforcement agency for cross-dressing, which is a punishable offence in the kingdom.<\/p>\n

A rest house was raided where a \u2018Guru Chela Chalan\u2019 gathering, a formal meeting of Khuwaja Sara in which they choose their Guru (leader) and Chelas\u00a0(Students), was taking place.<\/p>\n

Amna, 35, who belonged to the Mingora area of Swat and Meeno, 26, who was from Peshawar died in police custody. The police allegedly packed them in sacks and thrashed them with sticks in prison.<\/p>\n

Colonel Fawaz bin Jameel alMaiman, the police\u2019s media spokesperson in Riyadh, told\u00a0a local news agency that the field-control management had the site under constant surveillance.\u00a0Women\u2019s clothing and jewellery were also recovered from the rest house.<\/p>\n

He added that the 35 people inside had been apprehended.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajority of the arrested, belong to K-P and the others from other cities of Pakistan. Torturing humans after throwing them into bags and beating them with sticks is inhumane,\u201d said Qamar Naseem, a transgender rights activist.<\/p>\n

While 11 were released later after paying a fine of 150,000 riyals, <\/strong>22\u00a0are still in police custody, Naseem added.<\/p>\n

The suffering ended for these two after being physically tortured, however, the rest are still languishing in Saudi jails, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201dNo one is there to save them as the life of a transgender is not of any value to anyone, not even for our own government,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Naseem said that the National Commission for Human Rights had been contacted and they are awaiting their response.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The<\/em>\u00a0Express Tribune<\/em>, Farzana,\u00a0a transgender person, said that if they were involved in any illegal activity the police should take them to court instead of thrashing them like animals.<\/p>\n

\u201dEnding someone\u2019s life without a court ruling is in itself illegal,\u201d Farzana said.<\/p>\n

She claimed\u00a0the kingdom would not even allow a transgender person to perform Hajj or Umrah.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Kabbah\u2019 is not their property\u00a0\u2014\u00a0it is god\u2019s property and every Muslim has a\u00a0right to visit, she added.<\/p>\n

In 2016, local media reported that the Saudi consul-general in Islamabad, in a notification issued to the Travel Agents Association of Pakistan (TAAP), warned against granting visas to transgender persons for Umrah pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

TAAP has denied receiving instructions from the Saudi government for not issuing visas to transgender persons who wish to visit the holy land.<\/p>\n

Copy :\u00a0https:\/\/tribune.com.pk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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