Noreen Niazi moved from Lahore jail to hospital due to high blood pressure: lawyer
LAHORE: Incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan’s sister Noreen Niazi was moved from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Wednesday due to high blood pressure, her lawyer said. Three sisters of the ex-premier — Noreen, Aleema Khan, and Uzma Khan — have been detained since Sept 21 under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960 (MPO) on the Lahore deputy…
Imran Khan’s sister, Noreen Niazi, has been transferred from Kot Lakhpat jail to Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore due to high blood pressure, according to her lawyer. Noreen, along with her two sisters Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, have been detained since September 21 under Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960.
They are serving the second term of a 30-day detention, which was extended on October 7. Noreen's lawyer, Rana Mudassar Umer, claims that she was moved to the hospital at around 7:30 PM on Wednesday after her doctors recommended it. However, no family members have been informed about her health condition. Umer also alleges that jail authorities have consistently denied medicines to the sisters, including Uzma, who is a heart patient.
A senior jail officer refuted these allegations, stating that medicines and daily-use items are allowed to be provided to inmates. The lawyer has also filed multiple petitions seeking meetings between the sisters and their family or lawyers, but these requests have not been granted. The sisters were initially detained in September under Section 3 of the MPO, ahead of Imran Khan's planned protest march to Islamabad.
Their detentions have been extended twice, and the government informed the Lahore High Court that the extension was granted on October 7.
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