PTI President Parvez Elahi arrested in Lahore<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI tried all his numbers but they were not working. He [Raja] has been released but there are certain conditions on social media use, even in some cases mobile phone use is banned,\u201d the lawyer added.<\/p>\n
The lawyer said he does not believe Raja was involved in terrorism encouragement or anything unlawful.<\/p>\n
A diplomatic source said Raja was arrested by the counter-terrorism police on complaints made by the Pakistani authorities.<\/p>\n
Raja tweeted on Wednesday afternoon informing that he was well and will continue his peaceful struggle. He did not mention anything about his arrest or release.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been many rumours about me and my welfare. Alhamdullilah, I am well. I remain fully committed to raising a voice against fascism and for democracy in Pakistan,\u201d said the former military officer in a tweet. He added that he will continue to advocate people’s democratic right to peaceful protest as the only way to bring about real change.<\/p>\n
However, his lawyer and a security source told\u00a0Geo News<\/i>\u00a0that Raja has been arrested on bail while police investigations continue into the complaints.<\/p>\n
Geo News<\/i>\u00a0understands that the UK government has received multiple complaints about Raja from Pakistan. It added that Islamabad increased pressure on the UK after May 9 attacks on military installations by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters.<\/p>\n
The latest of these was regarding the riots of May 9, which were sparked after the PTI chief was arrested from the Islamabad High Court under a \u00a3190 million settlement case.<\/p>\n
Raja and other activists raised hateful and anti-state sentiments via social media, the Pakistani government said in its complaint to UK authorities.<\/p>\n
The complaint added that the vocal PTI worker had tried to destabilise the country by spreading fake news.<\/p>\n
The London police have not yet released a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n
The UK Terrorism Act 2000 defines terrorism, both in and outside of the UK, as the use or threat of one or more of the actions including serious violence against a person; serious damage to property; endangering a person’s life; creating a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public; action designed to seriously interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.<\/p>\n
The Terrorism Act 2006 (2006 Act) created a number of new offences. These new offences include the offences of encouragement of terrorism, dissemination of terrorist publications, an offence of the preparation of terrorist acts, and further terrorist training offences, terrorist threats relating to devices and materials or facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social media activist and YouTuber Major (retd) Adil Raja has been released on police bail after he was arrested by United Kingdom\u2019s counter-terrorism police on suspicions of encouraging acts of terrorism inside Pakistan, his lawyer confirmed on Wednesday. Mahtab Aziz, who represents Adil Raja, told\u00a0a private news channel\u00a0and a media conference that his client has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[8026,9411,855,9410,194],"class_list":["post-17099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-adil-raja","tag-pakistani-government","tag-uk","tag-youtuber","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}