Ah, the right to constitutional remedies is the right to run to the court when the state has tied your hands. A writ of habeas corpus is the legal string that is supposed to pull you out from a detention cell and into the sunlight before a judge.
But I tell you, in our valley, that string often snaps in the wind. My nephew, a bright boy who writes poetry, has been in Kot Bhalwal for eleven months now, just on a "preventive" dossier. The lawyer filed the habeas corpus petition six months back—the court says it is "under consideration," and my sister measures her life in adjournment dates.
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