Heela

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

I’ve been instructed to call on the public not to attempt to march or protest nearby Adiala jail on 27 March. I’ve heard from sources that this may be used as an excuse for the establishment to launch a “counter” assault on the jail (Which my father is being held in), which could endanger his life. Please do not give them any reasons for “accidents” to happen to my father during the protest.

[nina𓅪 @aechilla]

The way Kasim has started speaking out more actively against the injustice of this regime, tells you how dangerous the situation is at this moment.

Imran Khan’s life is at risk and it’s the duty of the 250 million Pakistani citizens now to come out and end this fascism.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

Hearing news that my cousin’s children are now safe 🙏.

Meanwhile two more of my cousins have been arrested. Azeem and Sakeenah.

No reasons given.

No location given.

[deeja✯⁠ @deejasays]

My heart literally swells with pride every time I see how deeply Imran Khan is respected & loved around the world. These mfs aren’t even worthy of dust beneath his shoes. Undoubtedly, biggest star this country has ever produced. May Allah grant him the best in both worlds Ameen.

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[shah. @xzydc]

Atherton & Hussain are writing letters, interviewing Imran Khan’s sons, raising global awareness. I won’t be surprised if they think the whole board and players are shameless for pretending the greatest Pakistani cricketer doesn’t even exist.

[Atiq Flamboyant @etza07]

The cricketers Imran Khan played against have shown more integrity than those with whom he shared a dressing room.

[Abdullah @michaelscottfc]

Michael Atherton, words cannot express our gratitude for raising voice for Imran Khan especially at a time when even many of his own have chosen to remain silent. Pakistan owes you one.

@Athersmike

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

“it’s very clear that they’re blatantly trying to kill Imran Khan in prison” - Kasim Khan

[PTI @PTIofficial]

“My brother and I have not been able to visit our father for years. For the past six months, we haven’t even spoken to him. What my father is going through is a violation of his human rights.” - Sulaiman Khan, son of Imran Khan, addressing a press conference.

The Supreme Court has ordered that Imran Khan be allowed to speak with his children. Yet the authorities continue to deny him this basic right, in addition to refusing visas that would allow @Kasim_Khan_1999 and Sulaiman Khan to travel to Pakistan to see their father.

#FreeImranKhan

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

the last time they suspected a Supreme Court order was being defied, they opened the court at midnight and sent prison vans to arrest parliamentarians.

a SC order was obliterated last night, and they’re sleeping with their heads up their asses. lol.

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

put in solitary confinement. cut off from family and lawyers. denied access to proper medical care. kept isolated from the outside world.

no, i’m not talking about Imran Khan; i’m talking about how they killed Mohamed Morsi… the pattern is disturbingly familiar.

[Jibran Ilyas @agentjay2009]

There can’t be more clear #ContemptOfCourt

Supreme Court specifically mentioned transfer to Shifa International Hospital Islamabad.

Federal Minister admitted publicly that Imran Khan was NOT taken to Shifa International Hospital.

Supreme Court must take action asap!

[Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm]

Footage of the convoy entering Shifa hospital.

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

International media coverage of the news about Supreme Court ordering to shift Imran khan to hospital.

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

PTI parliamentarians were supposed to gather outside the IHC today over Imran Khan’s health concerns, but only 3-4 leaders showed up.

the people we voted for on 8th February have abandoned Imran Khan.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

https://t.co/XA46LuUlx7

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.

I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.

But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.

I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

He doesn't know how to give up, and they don't know how to win.

When all hope is gone, and defeat appears imminent, that's when he will win.