Leading Baloch human rights group, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) held a candlelight vigil on Saturday night in the memory of Zeeshan Zaheer, who was extrajudicially killed.

According to a statement released on social media by BYC, the protest is a call to action in solidarity with BYC leaders currently on hunger strike and in remembrance of countless Baloch ...

The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has accused Pakistani authorities of responding to the peaceful protests held in over 20 locations across Balochistan and Karachi on April 13 with brutal force.

The BYC accused armed police, plainclothes intelligence and paramilitary forces of dispersing protesters, sealing roads, baton-charging women, firing on unarmed crowds, and lodging criminal cases ...

Sammi Deen Baloch, other leaders taken away by police; Section 144 imposed in city; counter-protesters chant slogans against BLA, BYC.

After the strike call, the BYC claimed that Mahrang, along with other protesters, was arrested earlier on Saturday from the Quetta sit-in while the alleged bodies were "seized".

BYC claims Mahrang among those held in pre-dawn crackdown; mobile services down in Quetta; Rind doesn't mention Mahrang by name in confirming arrests.

The BYC focuses on enforced disappearances, a worsening crisis in Balochistan. Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s human rights wing, documented 576 cases in 2023 and 619 in 2024, alongside ...

Dr. Mahrang Baloch speaks at a BYC rally in Dalbandin, Balochistan, Jan. 25, 2025. Credit: Facebook/ Baloch Yakjehti Committee Balochistan, Pakistan’s southwestern province, has long been riven ...

The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has agreed to end its protest in Gwadar, as confirmed by Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove, on Friday. The decision was reached after the BYC and ...