Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is arbitrarily imprisoned, in violation of worldwide regulation, a U.N. human rights working group mentioned Monday.
The Geneva-based U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention mentioned that the “appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Khan immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law.”
In January, a Pakistani courtroom sentenced Khan and his spouse to 14 years in jail for corruption, a day after one other particular courtroom handed him a 10-year jail sentence for leaking state secrets and techniques.
The courtroom additionally disqualified Khan for years from holding any public workplace, forward of Pakistan’s Feb. 8 parliamentary elections. Khan’s lawyer Babar Awan mentioned the previous prime minister was convicted and sentenced in such a rush that the choose didn’t look ahead to the arrival of his authorized staff.
Khan was ousted from energy in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April 2022. Despite his conviction and sentencing, he stays in style and is at the moment serving time on a corruption conviction and has a number of different authorized instances hanging over him.
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