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Jemima Goldsmith Urges UK Intervention Over Imran Khan Prison Treatment
Jemima Goldsmith is asking the UK government to speak up about Imran Khan’s treatment in prison.
Khan is Pakistan’s former prime minister and Goldsmith’s former husband.
She says he has been kept alone for a very long time.
She also says his family has not been able to contact him for nearly 10 months.
Goldsmith alleges that he has had limited access to doctors, lawyers and books.
She believes this may be harming his physical and mental health.
She asked UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband why Britain has remained silent.
She said international prison rules prohibit prolonged solitary confinement and protect prisoners’ access to essential support.
Jemima Goldsmith urged the UK government to publicly intervene over Imran Khan’s prison treatment.
She alleged Khan had spent three years in solitary confinement.
Goldsmith said Khan’s family had been denied contact with him for nearly 10 months.
She also alleged he had been denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
Goldsmith cited the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules and described the situation as a human-rights emergency.
- Who
- Jemima Goldsmith appealed to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband regarding Imran Khan.
- What
- Goldsmith urged public UK intervention over Khan’s alleged solitary confinement and restricted access to family, doctors, lawyers and books.
- Where
- The allegations concern Imran Khan’s imprisonment in Pakistan; Goldsmith made the appeal on X.
- When
- The article does not specify when Goldsmith made the post.
- Why
- She said the alleged treatment may be harming Khan’s physical and mental health and violates international human-rights standards.
Key facts
- Person at center
- Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister
- Appeal made by
- Jemima Goldsmith, Khan’s former wife
- Alleged confinement
- Three years in solitary confinement
- Family contact
- Nearly 10 months without contact, according to Goldsmith
- Alleged restrictions
- Access to books, lawyers and doctors
- Standards cited
- The United Nations’ Nelson Mandela Rules
Quotes
Jemima Goldsmith
Writer and former wife of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan
“For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which, according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.”
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“The international human-rights standards are unequivocal”
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