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Human rights champion cheerfully defiant - 11/10/2007 10:37:29 AM

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LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 9 - Female prison guards sit in Asma Jahangir's art-filled living room, watching as she sips tea, smokes cigarettes and talks about how proud she is to be Pakistani.

Jahangir, a lawyer and head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, was placed under house arrest last Saturday, and since then the government has turned her two-story family villa into a jail. More than 20 prison guards, some with submachine guns, are posted in her garden, and plainclothes officers in oversize suits peer through her windows.

Her country is now in a state of turmoil, following President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule, which has included the firing of Supreme Court justices and the detention of hundreds of opposition leaders, lawyers and human rights activists.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21719052

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RE: Human rights champion cheerfully defiant - 11/10/2007 11:00:35 AM

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I don't like that term "Human Rights."
It's very ambiguous and can be used to conceal illegal activity.

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