Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
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.
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.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of former Pakistani PM Imran Khan has filed a contempt petition against the government after authorities sent him to a state-run hospital instead of the private facility ordered by the top court, party officials said https://t.co/oX5dCO7Uzn
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.
“This is a complete violation of the Supreme Court’s orders. There was no thorough check-up.”
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s family accuses gov’t of defying hospital order https://t.co/PfeOIj7t9S
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.
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@PTIofficial@RakhshandaAzam کسی مہذب معاشرے میں ایسا نہیں ہوتا، لوگ حالت جنگ میں بھی علاج معالجہ کے سہولت دیتی ہے ۔ یہ پاکستان نہیں جنگلستان ہے، ایک سابق وزیراعظم کے ساتھ یہ ہورہا ہے اس ملک کا اللہ حافظ ہو 💔
”عمران خان نے کہا، میری قوم کو بتائو یہ جیل میں میرے ساتھ کتنا ظلم کر رہے ہیں۔ یہ انسان نہیں ہیں، انہوں نے مجھے قید تنہائی میں ٹیلی ویژن یا پڑھنے کیلئے کسی بھی قسم کے مواد سے دور رکھا۔ میرے سر میں کچھ ہوتا تھا، میں نے ڈاکٹرز سے اپنی طبیعت کا کئی بار ذکر کیا مگر انہیں کوئی پرواہ نہیں۔“ ہمشیرہ اعظممئ خان، 9 ماہ بعد عمران خان سے ملنے کے بعد ملاقات کا احوال بتاتے ہوئے آبدیدہ
یہ ہمارے اصل مسائل ہیں، چھوٹے ممالک بھی کھانے پینے کے اشیا کی کوالٹی پر سمجھوتا نہیں کرتے لیکن یہاں یہ معاملات حکومتوں اور متعلقہ حکام کے ترجیحات میں شامل نہیں ہوتے۔ کیا حکومتی وزراء اور دیگر کے پاس اس رپورٹس کی تصدیق اور ایکشن کے لئے وقت ہوگا یا اپنے مفادات تک محدود ہونگے؟
یہ ڈپٹی کمشنر لاہور کون صاحب بہادر ہیں؟
اگر پاکستان کی بڑی جماعت کے سیکرٹری جنرل سلمان اکرم راجہ کے سامنے یہ اس رعونت سے جھولے جھول رہے ہیں تو سوچیں عام آدمی کو کیا سمجھتے ہونگے؟
ایسے ہی لاٹ صاحبان حکومت کو عوام میں غیر مقبول بناتے ہیں، بنیادی تمیز ؟
"We hear you, we see you, we love you, and we haven’t forgotten you."
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has thanked Layan Al Quqa, a young Palestinian artist in Gaza, for painting a mural celebrating the friendship between Spain and Palestine.