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[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

The clumsy attempts to censor Imran Khan's name & the interview of his children is further proof of the incompetence and cruelty of those at the helm. A country of 250 million people is being turned into a global laughing stock at the whims of a few insecure men. Shameful!

[Humaira @HumairaWajahat]

The Zionist Lobby.

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

Imagine being so GOATed that the most loved, undisputed and successful active cricket legend of the most successful team in history speaks up for you.

That’s Imran Khan’s stature.

[Abdullah @michaelscottfc]

Not gonna lie, seeing Javed Miandad break down while talking about Imran Khan is genuinely sad. Being around the same age and having spent so many years playing alongside him, he probably understands better than a lot of ppl how difficult these last 3 years must have been for IK.

[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

[Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm]

Imran Khan’s sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, tell Al Jazeera they are increasingly worried about their 73-year-old father after hearing he is “agitated” and suffering from “severe anxiety.”

[Waseem Malik @waseemalik65]

“Imran Khan's imprisonment is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice since South Africa's Nelson Mandela, and it is about as legitimate. Nobody around the world supports it, and few in Pakistan. The few people who support it, like the few who supported Nelson Mandela's arrest, have arguments so weak that they are having to have massive mental gymnastics to get them anywhere, and they end up looking either incredibly stupid or really dishonest.”

Adrian Meredith ;an Australian cricket writer, journalist, and social media content creator based in Melbourne.

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

Now it’s CNN with their top most anchor Becky Anderson raising concerns about Imran Khan. Zulfi Bokhari just brilliant presented Khan’s case.
Yesterday it was Sky, today it’s CNN. Imran khan is all over on global networks.
It’s getting too embarrassing for our rulers.

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

What an occasion. Test match at lords and former England Captain speaking in support of Imran Khan.
How embarrassing for Pakistani government.

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

Good to see the whole world hear about Pakistan’s brutal military dictatorship during the lunch break on the first day of the Test match at Lord’s.

Former England cricket captain Michael Atherton interviewed Imran Khan's sons, Qasim and Sulaiman.

[The Grade Cricketer @gradecricketer]

Greg Chappell gives us an update on Imran Khan

[Syed Zain Raza @MrZainRaza]

Raftar has recently done a documentary where they showed the abysmal condition of the hospitals in Interior Sindh. One hospital there gives out chits saying "no beds" unless you bring a sifarish which allows you admission. Yet the shamelessness of Jiyalas is a sight to see

[Mohsin Dawar @mjdawar]

The tragic loss of infants at PIMS is impossible to comprehend. This is what happens when war and militarisation are prioritised over human development. If this is the state of Pakistan’s capital, one can only imagine the plight of the rest of the country. The state must answer.

[Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm]

Not a single person from PIMS was injured or died in the tragedy. That means they all ran away, leaving helpless infants to die in the fire while watching like spectators. You will struggle to find such a heartbreaking and inhumane tragedy in modern history. #PIMS

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

Don’t look away. This is what life looks like for the average middle class & poor Pakistani, every new day brings a new struggle, a new crisis, or a new tragedy.

If you think everything is fine, you are either privileged enough not to see it or simply choosing to ignore it.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

A personal plea to @elonmusk
My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement.
X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights.
Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero.
You promised free speech, not “speech but no one hears it”.
Please fix the visibility filtering on my account so we can get the message out! @MarioNawfal

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The ongoing detention and shocking mistreatment of Imran Khan is a grave violation of human rights, democracy and basic decency.

I reiterate my calls for his release.

[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.

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

کچ بھی ہو جاے ہم اپنے بھایئ کیلے خون کے آخری قطرے تک لڑیں گے۔ علیمہ خان۔۔

[Humaira @HumairaWajahat]

This is the hospital the government chose for Imran Khan.

A PIMS doctor reportedly could not even say what eye drops had been prescribed to him. Questions have also been raised about whether the appropriate cardiology equipment was available.

And this is reportedly the patients’ drinking-water facility — visibly filthy and in a condition that raises serious hygiene concerns.

Yet we are expected to believe Imran Khan’s blood pressure and severe anxiety were simply assessed away and he was declared medically fit.

Medical care is not theatre. Where are the prescriptions, specialist findings, investigations, equipment records and independent medical assessment?

When a former prime minister is in state custody, “trust us” is not a medical standard.