The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist Sanam Javaid’s release and stopped the police and other law enforcement agencies from arresting her till Thursday, while also strictly advising her to “stay mum” in the meantime.
The firebrand campaigner of the Imran Khan-founded party, who faced arrests and rearrests in multiple cases related to May 9 mayhem, had been once again taken into custody by the capital territory police on Sunday, an hour after her release from Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) custody.
A duty magistrate at a district and sessions court in Islamabad had allowed Javaid to walk free a day after she was arrested by the probe agency’s team in a terrorism case linked to May 9 riots. Saturday’s arrest came minutes after her release from a Gujranwala prison following her acquittal in a separate case under similar charges.
However, she was freed again on Sunday after the Islamabad court cleared her of charges in the FIA case, only to be handcuffed by the police just after an hour of release.
