The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has once again detained senior PTI leader and former federal minister Senator Azam Swati in Islamabad.
Azam Swati was arrested early on Sunday after the three-person FIA squad searched his farmhouse in Chak Shahzad and discovered that he had posted controversial things on Twitter.
According to sources, Azam Swati was detained by the FIA’s Cybercrime Wing for disparaging government institutions with lewd language.
This was the second time that the PTI leader had been arrested by the FIA officers for his controversial tweets.
FIR lodged
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) registered a case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Senator Azam Swati over his controversial remarks.
The case was registered by the cybercrime wing of the FIA on the complaint of the agency’s Technical Assistant Aneesur Rehman under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Peca) Act.
Senator Azam Swati will be produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate Waqas Ahmed Raja today.
Azam Swati was detained by the FIA last month and brought before a court from his residence in Islamabad.
In the case involving surety bonds worth Rs. 1 million, the PTI senator had been granted bail.
By petitioning the Islamabad High Court, the government contested Swati’s bail and asked for the bail to be revoked in the case.
Imran slams Azam Swati’s arrest as state fascism
Imran Khan criticized the government’s behavior in response to Azam Swati’s arrest and claimed that the nation was rapidly slipping into fascism.
In a couple of tweets uploaded on Sunday morning, Imran Khan said “I am shocked and appalled at how rapidly we are descending into not just a banana republic but a fascist state. How can anyone not understand the pain and suffering Senator Swati underwent with custodial torture and blackmailing video of him and his conservative wife sent to his family?”
The PTI chief further said “His justifiable anger and frustration at the injustice meted out to him especially the doors of Supreme Court remaining closed to him despite over a fortnight of appeals by Senators in support of him. So, he tweets and is arrested again. Everyone must raise their voice against this state of fascism.”
