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February 17, 2014

Anti-Drone Activist Says He Was Tortured During Captivity in Pakistan 
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A Pakistani anti-drone activist and journalist who was abducted from his
home earlier this month says he was tortured while being kept
blindfolded in a basement cell. Karim Khan went missing just before he
was due to travel to Europe to speak out about U.S. drone strikes, one
of which killed his brother and son in 2009. He was taken captive by up
to 20 men, some in police uniform. He was released on Friday. Khan told
Al Jazeera his captors hung him upside down, hit his feet with a leather
strap and beat him. But he vowed to continue speaking out against U.S.
drone strikes.

Karim Khan: "My mission, you know, I will, inshallah, continue it, and I
will not leave it, if anybody do anything, I will never leave this, my
mission."

Watch our reports about Karim Khan, including clips of him from the
film, "Wounds of Waziristan."

 

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