LAHORE: YouTuber Aun Ali Khosa, who was allegedly abducted on August 15, has returned home safely on Monday, his lawyers confirmed.
On Friday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the Lahore police to recover Khosa by Aug 20.
On Monday, a little after midnight, Khosa’s lawyer Khadija Siddiqi shared a post on X saying: “Alhamdulillah, Aun Ali Khosa has been released! He has reached home!”
Another one of Khosa’s lawyers, Mian Ali Ashfaq, also confirmed his return home in a statement on X.
In another statement, Ashfaq said he had spoken to Khosa in great detail.
“Alhamdulillah, he is courageous, safe and determined,” Ashfaq said. “May Allah bless him and his family every step of the way.”
He also thanked Siddiqi for her support and representation.
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A day prior, his wife Binish Iqbal had filed a petition in the court claiming that her husband was “in the unlawful and illegal custody of the law enforcement authorities”.
Iqbal stated that the whereabouts of Aun were unknown and she feared for his “safety having strong apprehension that his husband has been a victim of enforced disappearance.”
According to the petition, Aun was a “digital content creator, a writer, and a dignified comedian/artist having a massive following of 137,000 subscribers on YouTube”.
It claimed that at 2am on August 15, a dozen police officials and “men with masked faces in plain clothes” barged into his apartment after breaking apart the entrance door.
The heavily armed men confiscated Aun’s phone, laptop, computer system, and digital camera, the petition further detailed.
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