The authorities have additionally not allowed members of the family to fulfill him regardless of a critical eye situation, Naureen Niazi has advised RT
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been denied medical care in jail, his sister has alleged.
Khan has been in jail since August 2023, when he was convicted in a case for taking advantage of the sale of state items.
The authorities have denied permission to members of the family or medical doctors to fulfill him lately, his sister Naureen Niazi advised RT in an interview.
“We don’t actually know his actual situation as a result of they don’t let our medical doctors see him. So we will’t belief what they’re saying,” she mentioned, including the household or their medical doctors haven’t met Khan within the final three months.
Pakistan’s Supreme Courtroom has ordered a medical staff to look at Khan and allowed cellphone contact along with his sons after a court-appointed lawyer’s report.
Khan has been left with simply 15% imaginative and prescient in his proper eye after authorities allegedly ignored his complaints for months, lawyer Salman Safdar wrote in a report back to the court docket. “No motion was taken by the jail authorities to handle these complaints,” the report mentioned.
“For the final three months he has been telling the superintendent [in] jail that my eyes are hurting,” Niazi mentioned within the interview.
Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi have been additionally convicted in a $232 million land corruption case in January 2025 and sentenced to a 14-year jail time period.
Khan has denied the costs, calling them “politically motivated.”
The previous cricket star, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, alleges he was overthrown because of a US conspiracy. Khan was toppled in April 2022 by the primary no-confidence vote within the nation’s historical past, reportedly on the request of the US, as a result of he was too pleasant to Russia.
Within the 2023 case, he was discovered responsible of illegally shopping for and promoting state items, though the sentence was later suspended. In 2024, he was additionally sentenced to 10 years for leaking state secrets and techniques, a cost he has denied.
His arrests and sentences sparked nationwide protests, a few of which turned violent.
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