Pakistan’s Imran Khan and his lawyer met Monday at a high-security jail the place the previous prime minister is being held following his sentencing, to plan find out how to problem the graft case that landed him behind bars greater than a yr after he was ousted from energy.
A nationwide cricket hero and high opposition chief, Khan was sentenced over the weekend to a few years for concealing property after promoting state items whereas in energy and brought to Attock, a high-security jail in japanese Punjab province.
The gorgeous sentence might bar him from politics as Pakistani legislation prohibits anybody with a prison conviction from holding or working for public workplace, and will price him the chairmanship of the celebration he based, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI.
Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Haider Panjutha, instructed reporters after their assembly Monday that Khan was in good spirits and sustaining “a excessive morale” regardless of the cruel circumstances on the jail, which is understood for holding convicted militants and essentially the most hard-core criminals throughout trial proceedings.
Khan is being held in a “small room the place there isn’t a air conditioner and the place there are flies in daytime and bugs at night time,” the lawyer mentioned, insisting that Khan ought to get higher amenities in jail.
“He says he can spend the entire of his life in such circumstances however won’t bow down,” Punjutha mentioned.
Their assembly passed off within the presence of jail officers, the lawyer mentioned and added that Khan had given him the inexperienced mild to petition the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom towards the conviction on Tuesday. He mentioned Khan’s authorized workforce had already petitioned a court docket in search of higher jail amenities for him.
Pakistans former Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) leaves after showing within the Supreme Courtroom in Islamabad on July 26, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP through Getty Photographs)
The lawyer mentioned Khan had requested to see his spouse, Bushra Bibi, and his private doctor — requests that the authorized workforce will even undergo jail authorities, Panjutha mentioned. He added that Khan was praying and reciting the Quran, Islam’s holy e-book, and given the identical meals as different prisoners.
In keeping with the lawyer, Khan additionally praised his supporters and requested them to proceed peaceable protests towards his imprisonment.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who’s main Khan’s celebration in his absence, additionally denounced the jail circumstances, saying Khan was being denied his fundamental rights.
Khan’s jail time period began on Saturday, but it surely was not instantly clear if he’ll spend the three-year sentence in Attock. Authorities have additional tightened safety across the jail, which already has armed guards in watchtowers, by erecting obstacles and blocking roads to maintain folks away. They’ve additionally instructed locals to not enable media onto their roofs to cease pictures and movies from leaking.
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Khan was beforehand arrested in Might on corruption expenses — an arrest that triggered a wave of violent protests that swept the nation. Days later, Pakistan’s Supreme Courtroom ordered his launch, saying his arrest was unlawful.
Since his sentencing Saturday, Khan’s renewed name for mass protests have failed to realize traction amongst his supporters. On Sunday, a whole bunch gathered on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistan-administered Kashmir area, to sentence the arrest.
Khan has claimed that his ouster from energy was a conspiracy by Washington, the federal government of his successor, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and the Pakistani navy — accusations that every one three deny.
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Panjutha additionally recounted to reporters that Khan instructed him how safety forces on Saturday broke the door of his bed room to arrest him and dragged him out of his house in Lahore, the capital of Punjab, and compelled him right into a automobile.
