LAHORE, May 8: Jamaat-i-Islami Punjab amir MNA Liaquat Baloch said on Tuesday that about 50 district chiefs and workers of the party who were arrested before May 5 reception of the Chief Justice of Pakistan were shifted to different prisons in the province.

He released a list of detainees who were charged with violating Section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance and imprisoned for a term between one and three months.

He said in a press statement that detentions were political victimisation and demanded their immediate release. He appealed to the Supreme Court to take a suo motu notice of the situation.

According to him, Chakwal amir Amir Malik and six others were shifted to Dera Ghazi Khan jail, from Kasur to the Multan, Faisalabad amir Rai Akram Kharal and two others to Bahawalpur, Shakargarh naib amir Nazir Husain and Hafizabad amir Amanullah Chattha and two workers to Faisalabad prison. Similarly, several other workers were also sent to prisons in other district.