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🇵🇰🇪🇸. Too dead to die. Cybersecurity enthusiast. @ImranKhanPTI stan accnt

[Mike atherton @Athersmike]

Strong editorial today in @thetimes on Imran Khan

https://t.co/Rik2msS4Tq

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Pakistan's most embarrassing secret is internationalised….

Now the cricketing world is looking out for Imran Khan…

#NationalInterest for the week

https://t.co/jC8dmLngoY

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The sons of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan have spoken to Al Jazeera about their father’s worsening health in prison. Kasim and Suleiman Khan are demanding authorities allow access to independent medical treatment.

[Moeed Pirzada @MoeedNj]

Finally! A Much Stronger Voice for Imran Khan is emerging from Britain over the past few days!

[Daniel Alexander @daniel86cricket]

Incredible support for Imran Khan around the world. @ImranKhanPTI

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

I join @Athersmike in demanding that @Kasim_Khan_1999 be granted access to proper medical care and his family.

It is time the @commonwealthsec acted boldly in this regard.

I hope that people like @HelenClarkNZ will add their voices to this demand.

[CricFollow @CricFollow56]

As a cricket digital media platform, we strongly demand the immediate release of former Pakistan captain Imran Khan.

Whatever the political differences, everyone deserves dignity, justice and humane treatment. We urge those in authority to show courage and do what is right.

CricFollow will continue to stand behind Imran Khan and raise this voice.

Keep politics aside. Humanity comes first.

[Waqas @worqas]

Pakistan's ICC membership should be suspended.

[Uzair Kazmi @kazmiuzair]

@BeckyCNN thanks for starting your tweet with "Pakistan's government has sent" so we know we dont have to read that pile of lies. Ain't reading all that. Free Imran Khan

[Imy @imyasghar]

Here it is. A sad goodbye to Pakistan cricket, and to a new beginning (to where I don't know).

Appreciate the love and friendships created. If you solely followed me for cricket, please don't hesitate to unfollow.

Thank you.

[Becky Anderson @BeckyCNN]

Imran Khan's family, political party and fellow cricket players are sounding the alarm over his deteriorating health in prison. I spoke to his close aide Zulfi Bukhari about his latest condition and the court case his party's filing against the Pakistani government over Khan's hospital visit last week:

[Farhan Mallick @FarhanGMallick]

Pressure is mounting.
Imran Khan’s is incomparable to any other political leader in our history. Every interview, every tweet is a hit. How much longer can they take it, they already stand at the top of the escalation ladder, imprisoned him, banned his pictures, his meetings, denied medical treatment. But Khan refuses to go away!

[Oliver Holt @OllieHolt22]

As Imran Khan rots in a ‘death cell’ in Rawalpindi, cricket refuses to allow one of its greats to be disappeared. Piece from Lord’s here: https://t.co/DGt6sctBp7

[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

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Imran Khan’s sons accuse Pakistan government of ‘trying to kill him’ https://t.co/5y4G0aAtx1

[Will Macpherson @willis_macp]

Bit going on around Sky’s excellent interview with Imran Khan’s sons today. PCB not happy https://t.co/cFTgTPfRqF

[Telegraph Cricket @TeleCricket]

The Pakistan Cricket Board threatened that its team would not return to the pitch after lunch at Lord’s if Sky Sports aired an interview with Imran Khan’s sons

@willis_macp reports ⤵️
https://t.co/oFBHPNL6Pr

[. @ThisAB__]

At the end, only your own blood fights for you. Just look at Imran Khan.
His sisters are in courts, on international media and outside Adiala for weeks, fighting to prove their brother is still breathing in a death cell.

His sons are screaming to the world that their father is rotting in solitary torture.

And 250 million spineless cowards are just watching his sisters get dragged and his sons beg for help, while you sit at home scrolling and hiding, waiting for his blood to win your freedom

[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.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

'The relative lack of interest in Imran Khan’s fate, other than among Britons of Pakistani heritage, is mystifying'

'Whatever mistakes he made as PM, Khan is a symbol of democratisation in a country that has been pillaged for decades by a military junta'

@DanielJHannan examines why 'that should be enough to make his cause ours' ⬇️
https://t.co/WdOwmuhEGY