Pakistani activist rearrested hours after bail in sedition case

Al Jazeera :
A prominent Pakistani lawyer and rights activist has been rearrested, hours after a court granted her bail in a sedition case.

Police in capital Islamabad arrested Imaan Mazari-Hazir on Monday after an antiterrorism court ordered her release from Adiala jail in Punjab province.

Mazari-Hazir’s lawyer told Al Jazeera the police have filed another case against her but they alleged the details were not shared with them.

“We asked the police officials to provide us with the first information report [FIR], but they refused to furnish it to us,” lawyer Zainab Janjua told Al Jazeera.

Mazari-Hazir, 30, was arrested on August 20, a day after former parliamentarian and Pashtun activist Ali Wazir was picked up by the police.