Pakistani human rights lawyers jailed over social media posts

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Two human rights lawyers were over the weekend sentenced to 17 years each in prison by a Pakistani court over media posts the authorities claimed were hostile to the state and its security institutions

Judge Afzal Majoka announced the verdict a day after Zainab Mazari and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha were arrested in Islamabad.

The couple appeared briefly via video link, but since the