Sidra Masood

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[Sidra Masood @SidMasood]

I have no enemies,u say?
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. If u’ve none, small is the work that u’ve done.U’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. I’ve never turned the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the
fight. #HappyBirthdayImranKhan

[Sara Mir @SaraMirGilgity]

@Jemima_Khan @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband Free imran khan

[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.

[Irfan @NaiKaroYar]

Seven years ago today Pakistan was a completely different country, Pakistan was in the hands of people who actually cared for this country and its people,
#ReleaseImranKhan

[Qasim Khan Suri @QasimKhanSuri]

#پاکستان_کی_کہانی

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Please write to your MP and ask them to lobby Govt to get off the fence and actively object to this cruelty.
You can find your MP’s name and details here: https://t.co/RBGLX5BbOc

Without a meaningful intervention, the Pakistani govt will undoubtedly kill off @ImranKhanPTI simply because they know that for as long as he lives, he is a threat to their power and corruption

[S.H @HijaziSidra]

No blood tests... is it because IK is being slow poisoned?

[Salman Ahmad @sufisal]

55 years ago , an 18 year old @ImranKhanPTI first played a test match vs England. He was the captain of the @UniofOxford cricket team, he excelled for Worcestershire and Sussex, and served English county cricket for two decades. He led Pakistan to victory over England in the 1992 World Cup. And yet he finds himself in a torture cell. his two British-Pakistani sons , Suleiman and Kasim plead for his human rights , over the last three years. Thank you @ZacGoldsmith for your humanity and sense of justice.

[Enkidu Reborn @enkidureborn]

جیل میں کیمرے بھی ہیں اور مائکس بھی۔ کہیں عمران خان نے ڈیل مانگی ہے یا سہولیات مانگی ہیں یا اس پر رضامندی ظاہر کی ہے تو اٹھا کر ہمارے منہ پر مار دو۔ اگر نہیں تو اپنا منہ صاف کرلو۔ رات کو نیازی تھوک کر چلا گیا ہے۔

[Mariam's Madness @MaddyWithKhan]

Can you even conceive of it?

Imprison a man on false charges for over 3 years.
Deny him basic human rights.
Continuous solitary confinement.
Repeated torture.

And yet, they fear him.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Relatives of former Pakistani PM Imran Khan say he’s being tortured in prison after he was returned to Adiala Jail hours after a court-ordered medical examination on Friday.

[Sabir Shakir @ARYSabirShakir]

عمران خان نے پوچھا کدھر ہے فیصل (ڈاکٹر) آیا ہوۂے؟
میں نے کہا وہ اغوا ہوگیا ہے
ڈاکٹر عظمی

[Mukhtar Hassan @mukhtarhassan56]

سر پورا ہفتہ بینچ موجود ہی نہیں ہے کیا کہیں گے۔۔ جواب سنیں

[Meetha Kharbooza @aikazaadfruit]

There will never be another Imran Khan. People like him comes in a millenia.

[Qasim Khan Suri @QasimKhanSuri]

لوگوں کو اتنا مذہبی بنا دو کہ وہ محرومیوں کو قسمت سمجھیں، ظلم کو آزمائش سمجھ کر صبر کریں حق کے لئے آواز اٹھانا گناہ سمجھیں غلامی کو اللہ کی مصلحت قرار دیں اور قتل کو موت کا دن سمجھ کر چپ رہیں۔ سعادت حسن منٹو

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Imran Khan is being tortured in jail, his sister has claimed.

“He told me he is being subjected to torture. His one eye was blindfolded. He was repeatedly saying they are torturing me,” said Dr Uzma Khan.

Read the full story here ⬇️
https://t.co/xILBBBZmaO

[Salman Ahmad @sufisal]

Why would anyone want to ever live in a country ruled by monsters ? The bravery of @ImranKhanPTI sisters is soul stirring.

[Jared Genser @JaredGenser]

If the news reports are true and the #Pakistan regime both flagrantly violated the #SupremeCourt's order and duped the people in thinking @ImranKhanPTI had been transferred to Al-Shifa, there is an elegant solution. The #SupremeCourt should simply find the regime in contempt of court under Article 204 of the Constitution and issue an order that suspends the two sentences Khan is serving as they are both on appeal anyways and requires his immediate release from prison. Then he can return to the people, get whatever medical care he needs, and fight for the release of his wife as well. @kasim_khan_1999 @sayedzbukhari #humanrights @PTIofficial @PTIofficialUSA @soulful7867

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Imran Khan transferred from prison to hospital.

His crime: winning an election the military backed government did not want him to win.

Imran Khan should be free. The West stays silent. End the military’s political imprisonment of the opposition.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Imran Khan has become “a symbol of democratisation in a country that has been pillaged for decades by a military junta.”

Why is Khan still behind bars – and what happens next? Read the full column from @DanielJHannan 👇
https://t.co/4JsmtgMLEO

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I’ve met Imran Khan, Pakistan’s ex-PM, many times. I greatly like and admire him as a person, and hope the current leadership in Islamabad will realise how much damage his treatment in prison is doing to Pakistan’s image internationally. He clearly needs urgent medical care.