IHC fixes hearing for Imaan, Chattha's sentence suspension pleas on Sept 8
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday fixed the suspension of sentence applications of lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha for hearing on September 8. Imaan, a rights activist and lawyer, and Chattha, an advocate, were in January 2026 handed a combined 17-year sentence on multiple charges linked to controversial social media posts that the prosecution argued amounted to an anti-state narrative under cybercrime laws. Imaan and Chattha had filed applications for suspension of their sentences in January. The Registrar’s Office issued a cause list for the case that showed Justice Muhammad Azam Khan would hear the case. The appeals for suspension of sentences of Imaan and Chattha were also heard in the Supreme Court by a two-member bench headed by Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan heard the case. During the hearing, Justice Afghan remarked that the "system should be fully exposed". "A case may disappear from the system; we will not disappear, we are presen...