Hotline issued an Urgent Appeal in May 2003 for the release of four leaders
of Anjuman Muzareen Punjab (Tenants Association Punjab or AMP) who were
arrested by the Okara police in April. The AMP represents thousands of
tenant farmers at the government owned agricultural farms, including
military farms. In the last two years six activists of the AMP have been
killed in their struggle for ownership rights to the land that they have
cultivated for over 100 years.  Legal recognition of their ownership rights
was promised to them by the government in 1999 but has not been implemented.

According to the local source, the last of the AMP leaders was released on
bail on 6 November 2003.  Some of the cases against them have been decided
in their favour.

For more information on AMP movement, please refer to UA030505(3).

Source: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace