GOJRA, Pakistan — Only one of the hundreds of Muslim assailants responsible for burning at least 50 homes is in jail for the fire assault on Gojra’s Christian Town, but sources said Islamists have provided police a pretense for arresting the two Christian brothers who gave shelter to 300 people.
Naveed Masih, 32, and his 25-year-old brother Nauman Masih were arrested Sept. 2 and 7, respectively, for “rioting with deadly weapons and spreading terror with firing,” although the latter has been released on bail. From his jail cell, Naveed Masih said he and his brother were taken to the Police Training Center in Choong, where they were kept in illegal detention for 18 days. Police kept them hungry for days, he said. Naveed Masih also said police tortured them to try to force them to say they had links with terrorist organizations.
“Sometimes we were hung in a dark well while our faces were covered with a cloth,” Naveed Masih said. “They beat me with cane sticks on the back of my hands and sometimes hung me upside down and then brutally beat me.”
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