Pakistan’s PTI seeks contempt action over jailed Imran Khan’s hospital move
Party launches legal action after authorities take ex-PM to state hospital for check-up before returning him to jail.
Imran Khan's political party lodged a contempt petition against the government on August 22, 2023, after authorities transferred the former prime minister to a state-run hospital instead of the private facility ordered by the top court. The petition demands action against the prime minister, law minister, information minister and other government officials, as well as for Imran Khan's treatment at the private Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad, as ordered by the court.
The party claims that Khan's arrest and imprisonment on charges of politically motivated wrongdoing has sparked nationwide protests and fears of rekindling similar demonstrations. The three-judge bench directed the government to transfer Khan to the private hospital within two days for medical examination, but authorities instead took him to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for a brief check-up and denied him access to his personal physician.
Khan's sister attended the examination at PIMS and claimed that her brother was being repeatedly tortured in prison.
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