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Canadian police term Pakistani activist Karima Baloch death’s ‘non-criminal’
23 Dec 2020 Karima Baloch poses for a photograph at her home in Toronto. Twitter photo
Police in Toronto said on Tuesday they are not treating the death of a prominent Pakistani activist as suspicious.
Police in Toronto termed the death of Baloch rights activist Karima Baloch, who went missing over the weekend before being found dead, as non-criminal.
Karima Baloch, 37, who hailed from Balochistan and was also known as Karima Mehrab, went missing on Sunday in Toronto’s downtown waterfront area. She was living in the Canadian city in exile for about five years. Police said her body was found on Monday.
Published Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:25PM EST TORONTO The family of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident urged a thorough investigation into her death, saying Wednesday they were having difficulty accepting a police conclusion she killed herself. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Sameer Mehrab was careful to say the family had no evidence his sister, Karima Mehrab, was in fact the victim of foul play, but said they found it unlikely the Toronto resident would have drowned herself in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario. Police are saying it s like a textbook suicide, he said. We are not suggesting anything but we want to be open to other possibilities due to the threats she was receiving.
The apparent drowning death of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident whose body was pulled from the water near downtown Toronto sparked anger, grief and suspicion on Tuesday.
Police said they had found Karima Mehrab, 37, dead on Monday. Mehrab, widely known as Karima Baloch, had been reported missing a day earlier. It is currently being investigated as a non-criminal death, Toronto police said in a statement. There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.
However, a close friend and fellow activist told The Canadian Press that Mehrab had recently received death threats, and he and her family were deeply suspicious about what had happened to her.
TORONTO The family of an internationally prominent Pakistani dissident urged a thorough investigation into her death, saying Wednesday they were having difficulty accepting a police conclusion she killed herself. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Sameer Mehrab was careful to say the family had no evidence his sister, Karima Mehrab, was in fact […]