'I met Imran Khan who told me that ‘they’ve put me in a C-class',' Naeem Panjutha, former prime minister Imran Khan's the lawyer says
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is being held in a small, dirty prison cell, one of his lawyer's said after being given access to the former cricket star in jail as he prepares to appeal against his graft conviction.
Police took Khan from his home in the city of Lahore on Saturday and transferred him to a jail in Attock district, near the capital Islamabad, where a court convicted him of graft charges arising from the unlawful sale of state gifts and sentenced him to three years in prison. "It is a small room which has got an open washroom where he said there were flies in the daytime and insects in the night."
Political prisoners are entitled to better"B-class" facilities, including access to television, newspapers and books.
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