The CODEPINK activists who've been visiting have been arrested and will be deported today (they've been given the choice of either leaving or facing sedition charges).
Meanwhile, LUMS faculty have also been charged, under the Maintainance of Public Order regulation. The faculty charged are Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Farhat Haq, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, and Osama Siddique. These charges are less serious than the sedition charges against the Punjab University faculty but are are another way of cracking down on the student movement.
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