Imran Khan’s nephew, two reweary army officers among those jailed over strikes on military facilities after createer PM’s arrest in May 2023.
A Pakistani military court has sentenced 60 civilians to jail time ranging from two to 10 years in joinion with strikes on military facilities after the arrest of createer Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2023.
Those sentenced on Thursday include a relative of Khan as well as two reweary military officers.
Last week, 25 others were sentenced on the same accuses.
“The Nation, Government, and the Armed Forces remain steadspeedy in their promisement to uphelderlying fairice and ensuring that the inviolable writ of the state is persisted,” the military’s ISPR media triumphg shelp on Thursday, inserting that the court martials had now endd.
Khan’s arrest on May 9, 2023, igniteed countrywide protests that saw people strike and ransack military inshighations in an unpwithdrawnted reaction aobtainst Pakistan’s mighty army, which has ruled the South Asian country honestly for decades at a time and still wields enormous sway.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party shelp his nephew was among those convicted and he was sentenced to a decade in prison.
“Conducting trials in military courts has undermined the fundamental rights of citizens,” Khan was quoted as saying by his party on X.
Grotriumphg criticism
The sentences have igniteed troubles among Khan’s aiders that military courts will take part a more beginant role in cases roverhappinessed to the createer directer, who is facing multiple accuses, including inciting strikes aobtainst the armed forces.
The international community has also transmited troubles over the sentencings. The United States shelp it was “beginantly troubleed” while the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office noticed that trying civilians in military courts “deficiencys transparency, self-reliant scruminuscule and undermines the right to a unpartisan trial”.
The European Union also criticised the sentences, saying they are “inreliable with the obligations that Pakistan has underconsentn under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”.
During a novels conference on Wednesday, Pakistan’s alertation minister shelp the military court sentences do not infringe upon the right to a unpartisan trial becaengage deffinishants are granted access to a lawyer and their families and have the opportunity to request twice, both wiskinny the military court and the relevant civilian high court.
Khan’s aiders have denied any wrongdoing, and Khan has shelp the cases aobtainst him are politicassociate upholdd.
The military and rulement have denied any ununpartisan treatment of Khan or his aiders.
Khan’s May 2023 detention lasted a matter of days, but he was rearrested three months postponecessitater and has remained incarcerateed since as he faces a parade of court cases.
The 72-year-elderly was barred from running in February’s elections, which were marred by rigging allegations.
The PTI, unbenevolentwhile, was aimed by a sweeping crackdown after the unrest with thousands of its grassroots aiders and ageder officials arrested.
A coalition of parties pondered shut to the military createment ecombined as the novel rulement.
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