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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.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Below is a THREAD with some shorter clips of the most important messages from my boys’ interview regarding their father’s incarceration.

Please share if you can.

1) His conditions in jail

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@HassanAyub82 آپ نا انسان ہیں نا جانور ہیں ۔۔۔۔۔۔ سمجھ نہیں آ رہی آپ ہیں کیا 🤔

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@DGISPR14 Twitter is banned in Pakistan. Please abide the law and do not use this forum.

It is extremely important that you follow the law and respect the constitution and mandate of people.

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@MaleehaHashmey TT Butt

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@iamshafaatali Stop putting ideas in ppl minds you dumbnut. How stupid can you get.

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@Fahdhusain No. You are too naive

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Bechare .....

[Asim Shaukat Ali @AsimShaukatAli]

جو سُپریم کورٹ کا فیصلہ ماننے سے انکار کر دے وہ انسانوں میں سے نہیں حیوانوں میں سے ہے : نواز شریف

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@Fahdhusain Do you really trust jang / geo ?

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@Fahdhusain @ImranKhanPTI @FaisalJavedKhan Oh Bhai. Just shut up for some time.

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@Fahdhusain @OfficialDGISPR It was ill conceived and badly executed. Did you advise them to do this?

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@iamshafaatali Do you really trust this version?

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@KB_BUT @TheStarKenya Please stop being naive and stop making fun of eveey situation. This is not a joke.

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@CMShehbaz You are a party to this my PM

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@Fahdhusain We (including you) are to be blamed. You damaged the cause of journalism massively.

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https://t.co/J5FW303ZTp

From my trip to Peshawar in Jan 22.
@KPKUpdates, @kptourism, @DepttTourism

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@KB_BUT Please mention the full name Ustad Allah Rakha Pepsi urf Pani Puri.

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@Faysal_Chaudary You need to cool down bhai.

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@anupamachopra Go for it ;)

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@MohsinHijazee @asmashirazi there are some rumours that you also benefited from an official hajj. Can you please share the receipts and money trail.