Overview
- Following Wednesday’s UN Human Rights Council address in Geneva, Kasim Khan urged the UN to press Pakistan to release his father and to comply with a UN working group’s opinion on his detention.
- The UK House of Lords held a debate Thursday that questioned Imran Khan’s health care, jail conditions, access to family visits, and access to justice.
- Government ministers denounced the appeal, with Attaullah Tarar saying the sons need no visas to visit Pakistan and Khawaja Asif alleging they pushed for EU trade penalties, charges PTI and the family deny.
- PTI leaders said the speech backed keeping the EU’s GSP+ trade scheme, which grants lower EU tariffs if Pakistan upholds 27 rights treaties, and they argued Islamabad must meet those obligations.
- Family and lawyers report severe vision loss and prolonged isolation for Imran Khan, who has been held in Adiala Jail since August 2023, though a brief Eid phone call to his sons was allowed.