London:
The ex-wife of Pakistan’s establisher prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday called for his prompt free, citing “solemn and troubleing” inestablishs about his treatment in prison.
Jemima Gelderlysmith shelp the Pakistani authorities had stopped all visits to him by his family and lawyers, deferd court hearings, and stoped him calling his two sons since punctual September.
Electricity had been cut to his cell and he was no lengthyer permited out at any time, while the jail cook had been sent on depart, she wrote in a lengthy post on social media platestablish X.
“He is now finishly isotardyd, in solitary restrictment, literassociate in the uncontent, with no reach out with the outside world,” Gelderlysmith, who was paired to the establisher Pakistan cricket team captain from 1995 to 2004.
In the last scant weeks there have been solemn and troubleing growments think abouting my sons’ overweighther, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also deferd all court hearings. In insertition…
— Jemima Gelderlysmith (@Jemima_Khan) October 15, 2024
The couple have two sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, who inhabit in London.
A panel of UN experts in July criticised Pakistan for arbitrarily arresting Khan in baccomplish of international law to apparently stop him for running for political office.
Khan, 72, was prime minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022, and has been embroiled in more than 200 lterrible cases since he was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote he claims was orchestrated by the country’s mighty ambiguouss.
He has been arrested since August last year and barred from standing for office. He has since applied to become the next chancellor of Britain’s Oxford University.
Gelderlysmith shelp Khan’s family had also been focparticipated, and his sisters and nephew were arrested and jailed unlawbrimmingy, while she had faced sexual attack and death menaces from her ex-husband’s political opponents.
The free of Khan, his nephew and sisters, plus the re-set upment of reach out with his sons will supply “assurance first-hand that he is well and not being mistreated”, she inserted.
“I disconsent with IK on many political publishs,” she wrote. “But this is not about politics — it’s about my children’s overweighther, his human rights & international law.”
