Kasim Khan, the son of incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan, raised his father’s case at the United Nations Human Rights Council UNHRC saying that the former prime minister’s treatment by authorities was in violation of international human rights conventions.
Imran khan — imprisoned since 2023 for concealing details of Toshakhana gifts — is serving a 14-year sentence at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail in the £190 million corruption case.
Meanwhile, his party and family have alleged that he is being kept in solitary confinement — with a restriction on visitors being allowed to meet him in jail , and have repeatedly raised concerns over his medical treatment after it surfaced in January that he suffered an eye ailment.
At a UNHRC session, Kasim said Imran’s case was not an “isolated incident”. In fact, he claimed, it was the “most visible example of a much wider pattern of repression in Pakistan since 2022”. In this connection, he mentioned the detention of political prisoners, trial and conviction of civilians by military courts and journalists being “silenced, abducted or driven into exile”.
He also briefly mentioned the February 2024 general elections, reiterating the PTI’s allegations that they were rigged.
Kasim noted that Pakistan had made binding commitments under the GSP+ framework to uphold international human rights conventions, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the United Nations Convention against Torture.
