GENEVA, July 2 — A panel of UN experts has determined that the detention of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was arbitrary and a violation of international law, calling...
A panel of UN experts has determined that the detention of former Pakistan i prime minister Imran Khan was arbitrary and a violation of international law, calling for him to be released immediately. — Reuters picGENEVA, July 2 — A panel of UN experts has determined that the detention of former Pakistan i prime minister Imran Khan was arbitrary and a violation of international law, calling for him to be released “immediately”.
Khan’s “detention had no legal basis and appears to have been intended to disqualify him from running for political office”, the working group said.“Thus, from the outset, that prosecution was not grounded in law and was reportedly instrumentalised for a political purpose,” it said in the opinion, which was dated March 25 and made public Monday.
Khan, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been entangled in more than 200 legal cases since he was ousted, in what he says is a campaign to keep him from power.However, the former international cricket star and his wife had their 14-year prison sentences for graft suspended by a Pakistan high court in April.He had been cleared for release before that trio of sentences in the days running up to Pakistan’s general elections in February.
He then waged an unprecedented campaign of defiance in opposition against them and accused top officers of conspiring in an assassination attempt in which he was shot during a political rally in November 2022.
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