Raheema Bibi, the wife of forcibly disappeared Saddam Hussain Kurd, held a press conference at the protest camp for missing persons, urging the authorities to either bring formal charges against her husband and present him in court or release him if he is innocent.
Speaking to journalists, she thanked them for their presence and said, “I hope you will be my voice.”
Raheema Bibi revealed that in the night between July 18 and 19, 15 to 20 armed personnel wearing black uniforms, allegedly from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and other state agencies raided her home in Killi Habib, Faizabad Quetta, without a warrant and detained her husband, Saddam Hussain Kurd, in front of her. The forces also confiscated both of their mobile phones.
“When I asked them where they were taking my husband, they told me that they had received some complaints against him and would release him after an inquiry,” she said. “But since then, there has been no update, he remains in custody and we are being kept in the dark.”
She said that she had approached Kechi Baig police station three times, but the SHO refused to file an FIR. She also submitted an application to the SP Sariab but has received no response. “Neither has an FIR been registered nor have we been given any information. My family is in deep mental distress, and our lives have come to a standstill.”
Through the media, Raheema appealed to the government and heads of state institutions to bring any charges if they exist, into the open and allow her husband a fair trial. “If he is innocent, he should be released immediately. And if he has been detained under the newly passed ordinance concerning enforced disappearances, then I demand to be informed of his status, so my family can be freed from this agony.”
