Geneva, Sept. 24 -- Social worker and rights activist from Jammu and Kashmir, Javad Ahmad Beigh has raised the issue of the continued incarceration of members of the Awami Action Committee of Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB), including its chairman, Advocate Ehsan Ali, at the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Addressing the Council, Beigh said Advocate Ehsan Ali and several other members of the AAC-GB had been kept in detention for more than three months. He described Ehsan Ali, a 70-year-old advocate, as the chairman of the AAC-GB.

Beigh alleged that Pakistan had criminalised genuine protests in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan and was using anti-terror laws against activists raising issues concerning the basic rights...