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[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.

[خاموش مان @myself573]

@samren786 بعض اوقات معافی کافی نہیں ہوتی جب کہ نقصان حد سے زیادہ ہو چکا ہو -

[Mir Mohammad Alikhan @MirMAKOfficial]

پاکستان میں سیاست تقسیم ہوئ ہے۔ قوم ایک ہے۔ اس وقت عمران خان کو باہر نکالیں اور دیکھیں کیسے سیاست اور قوم دونوں متحد ہوجائینگے۔

وہ کہاں بھاگ رہا ہے۔ دوبارہ گرفتار کرلیں اگر مثبت نتائج نہیں نکلتے تو۔

پاکستان کی خاطر سب کچھ کر کے دیکھنا پڑیگا اور اگر اس وقت کوئ دوسرا سیاسی قیدی ہوتا اس قد و قامت کا تو میں اس کے لئے بھی یہی کہتا بنا کسی بہانے کے۔

نواز شریف کو جھوٹی میڈیکل رپورٹ پر نکال دیا کیا وہ پاکستان کی سالمیت کا معاملہ تھا ؟ نہیں۔ وہ ملک سے باہر چلے گئے۔ عمران تو ملک ہی میں رہیگا۔

پاکستان سے زیادہ کچھ نہیں۔ ہر وہ چیز کرنی پڑیگی اس وقت جو شدید ناپسندیدگی کے باوجود اگر ایک فیصد بھی پاکستان کے لئیے اچھی ہے تو اُسے کریں۔

[Khaleej Mag @KhaleejMag]

In Surah Al-Baqarah (2:155), Allah subḥānahu wa ta'āla (glorified and exalted be He) reminds us: “And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.”

[TRT World @trtworld]

Witnesses watch on in horror as heavy Israeli bombardment violently blows Palestinians into the air in besieged Gaza

[Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸⚡️ @7MohammedKhaled]

The closer you look, the more you see people flying through the air. Criminology has reached a level never before known to humanity💔💔😭

[د.عبدالله العمادي @Abdulla_Alamadi]

A brave Muslim woman objected to Microsoft's continued support for the genocide in G@za during the company's 50th anniversary celebration, even though she works for the company, but the crime in G@za prompted her to express what millions of people around the world are feeling.
But strangely, most of the audience was silent, listening to a speaker about AI boss “ war profiteers” !

[Casual Geopolitics @Adamemedia]

They blindfolded him, made him run and shot him for fun. For sport.

[Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens]

Oh, Imran! Our hearts are weeping for you. Please God, grant him light and the sweet air of freedom, again. He's been illegally held for over a year, and now they have put him in solitary confinement for 3 weeks, in darkness, without permission to even take a walk

@ImranKhanPTI
#ImranKhan #Pakistan #Peace

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming 368-7 in June for an investigation into alleged poll-rigging [...]

However, no executive action has been taken by the White House, which “speaks to the duplicity of the Western world"

CC @State_SCA @usembislamabad

[Adil Raja @soldierspeaks]

"Concern is mounting regarding the health of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has spent over a year in a squalid prison cell on a slew of charges his supporters insist are politically motivated."
https://t.co/X76i2FqTUL

[الهاشمي . ALHACHIMI . Seeking Common Ground @MALHACHIMI]

Sad and worrying news from Pakistan.
#Pakistan #ImranKhanLifeAtHighRisk #ImranKhan

Imran Khan is completely isolated, in solitary confinement, literally in the dark, with no contact with the outside world.

Sky news reported today, quoting family members, that electricity and lights have been switched off in the prison cell where Imran Khan, the winner of the last Pakistani Elections, is detained.

He is no longer allowed to leave his cell and the jail's cook has been sent on leave.

@ImranKhanPTI @PTIofficial

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Imran Khan prevented from calling sons and isolated in dark cell, says ex-wife Jemima Khan Goldsmith

https://t.co/rYpcCa2IIg

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

‘Donald Lu told the Pakistani Ambasador…unless you get rid of Prime Minister Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence…Pakistan will suffer consequences’

-Pakistan’s🇵🇰 Former Prime Minister Imran Khan on the Biden Administration’s coup against him

FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/HKGHoTXjOH

[Bea @HerNameIs_Bea]

What is going on with #ImranKhan, #Pakistan?

This is some really worrisome questions, that needs to be answered!

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Oh look, another US-backed undemocratic regime change…

[BPI News @BPINewsOrg]

(1/2) ⬇️ Jemima Goldsmith has tweeted concerns over her ex-husband, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison.

She highlights that the authorities have stopped his visits and calls to his sons, with reports of him being held in solitary confinement in total isolation.

#ImranKhan #PTI

[FrancescaMarino @francescam63]

This is how Pakistan behaves with a former PM. Imagine what happens to the ordinary citizens, what happens to the ‘disappeared’…

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

Not a peep from our govt about the jailing and torture of the rightful leader of Pakistan.

#FreeImranKhan

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

Pakistan is a member of the Commonwealth, pledged “to promote, protect and respect internationally recognised human rights”. Their treatment of Imran Khan betrays these principles. As a possible candidate for Chancellor of @UniofOxford, he needs to be released and restored.