2023-08-07 16:34:34
Lawyers supporting Imran Khan, the former Pakistani prime minister arrested and sentenced on Saturday for corruption, denounce his arrest during a demonstration in front of the high court of Lahore, on August 7. ARIF ALI/AFP
DECRYPTION – Imran Khan is imprisoned for having appropriated official property.
New Delhi
Imran Khan knew he was going to be arrested sooner or later. So, before the police came knocking on the door of his Lahore home on Saturday, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan had recorded a video which was to be posted on social media, just in case…”Don’t stay home in silence. I fight for you, for the country and for the future of your children“, he launches, in order to urge his supporters to demonstrate to obtain his release. On Saturday, as he expected, he was sentenced to three years in prison and five years of ineligibility by a court in Islamabad for false declaration of income.
But since his incarceration, calm reigns across the country. His party, the Pakistan Justice Movement (PTI), has been decimated by arrests and pressure in recent months. The army and the government seem to have succeeded, for the moment, in neutralizing their sworn enemy after sixteen months of arm wrestling. Imran Khan hoped to win the legislative…
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