*ISLAMABAD – **Pakistani Human rights lawyer Jalila Haider arrested by FIAat Lahore airport.*
*Human rights attorney and political activist Jalila Haider was detainedfor over six hours at the Lahore airport.*
An FIA official told *SAMAA Digital* that her name was placed on the ECLlast November.
Haider told *SAMAA Digital *she is in “informal custody” at the airport.“When I reached the immigration counter, I was told that my name is on theExit Control List,” she said.
She was going to attend a workshop at the University of Sussex in the UK.
“The FIA officials opened a website and told me that I am accused of beinginvolved in anti-state activity,” she said.
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She says the officials told her that her name was added to the ECL inNovember but she was never notified. Her flight was at 6:40am and she hadbeen at the airport from 4am to around 10am.
After her release, she said officials told her her name wasn’t actually onthe ECL and that she could take another flight.
They said it was an “unknown technical reason”. She has been allowed toleave the airport
Haider was recently included in BBC’*s *list of 100 Most Influential Women.
