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.
Imran Khan will be moved to hospital amid rising concerns about his health, following reports that the former Pakistan captain and Prime Minister has lost most of the vision in his right eye
Full story: https://t.co/FIRb538wMu
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انتہائی با خبر وقاص کی بڑی سٹوری 🛑
اندرونی ذرائع کے مطابق فوج عمران خان کی بیماری کو دباؤ کے طور پر استعمال کرنے کی کوشش کر رہی تھی, کہ علاج اور طبی سہولیات تب ہی دی جائیں گی جب وہ ان کے ساتھ ڈیل کر لیں اور رہائی کے بعد چپ رہیں۔
🛑خان صاحب نے ٹھکرا دیا ہے!!
A detailed report by the “Amicus Curiae” appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the health and prison conditions of arbitrarily detained former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan reveals disturbing details of serious human rights violations, inhumane treatment, psychological torture, and deliberate medical neglect, which has resulted in 85% vision loss in his right eye. Here are some highlights from the report:
A court-appointed lawyer has claimed that jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been left with just 15 percent vision in his right eye after authorities allegedly ignored his complaints for three months, adding another layer of contention over his imprisonment.
زبردستی پولیس والے بازو پکڑ کر اسکول میں لے گئے کہا کہ کھانا ملے گا جب مریم نواز چلی گئی تو بغیر کھانا دیے ہمیں بھگا دیا
ستلج کے تلوار پوسٹ پر مریم نواز کی گورنمنٹ اسکول میں اتوار کے روز بچوں سے ملاقات کی اصل حقیقت ایک طالبِ علم نے بے نقاب کر دی
شاہ ریز خان اپنا کاروبار کر رہا تھا، اسے ورلڈ چیمپئن شپ میں حصہ لینا تھا اور بیرون ملک جانا تھا، شام چھ بجے گاڑی میں آئے اور ڈالے میں لے گئے ہیں۔شاہ ریز کے والد سہیل خان کا بیان
“We haven't seen our father for three years and haven't been able to speak to him for months. It's obviously brutal. It seems like they're trying to break him.”
Imran Khan’s sons #SulaimanKhan and @Kasim_Khan_1999 in an Exclusive Interview with @piersmorgan