Karachi, Pakistan, Jun 8, 2012 / 01:20 am
The Catholic bishops of Pakistan are giving their "full solidarity and support" to Asma Jahangir, a human rights advocate in Pakistan who says her life is being threatened by factions in the country's ruling establishment and intelligence services.
Peter Jacob, executive secretary of the bishops' Justice and Peace Commission, praised Jahangir's commitment to "freedom of expression, legality for religious minorities, democracy and the rule of law," Fides reports.
Jahangir is the founder and former president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a non-governmental organization that is represented in the United Nations Council for Human Rights.
She told Deutche Welle that "extremely reliable" sources have told her that some in the government, including the Inter-Services Intelligence security agency, have planned to kill her.