{"id":4775,"date":"2024-01-30T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:46:25","slug":"imran-khan-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/imran-khan-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan sentenced to ten years in prison by Pakistan court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Former Pakistan captain’s lawyers set to appeal the sentence at the High Court<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Imran Khan<\/a>, the former Pakistan captain and Prime Minister, has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a special court in Pakistan. He stands accused of not returning a diplomatic document after he was removed from the office of Prime Minister in 2022. He has been in prison since August 2023<\/a> on a separate charge, and though that sentence was suspended, he was still not released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imran Khan was charged under the Official Secrets Act, a British era law, with a special court convened to hear his case, as well as that of Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a senior figure in Imran’s political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Qureshi also received a ten-year sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PTI’s official Twitter account issued a statement, calling the ruling “a sham trial and a complete mockery and disregard of law”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Imran khan has consistently alleged that the no-confidence vote to remove him from power was undertaken at the behest of the United States of America, and that the document in question contained proof of American diplomatic pressure to get rid of him. This allegation gained further momentum when the US news organisation\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0published an article after purportedly gaining access to the classified document. The article said the US State Department threatened Pakistani isolation if Imran wasn’t removed, and that if he was indeed removed, “all would be forgiven”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n