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Pakistan’s erstwhile Prime Minister Imran Khan’s sister moved the Islamabad High Court, challenging his “prolonged solitary confinement” astatine Adiala Jail, calling it amerciable and a usurpation of cardinal rights, according to a media study connected Friday (May 15, 2026).
Aleema Khan filed the writ petition successful the precocious tribunal connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), the Dawn paper reported.
The petitioner argued that nary tribunal had sentenced the 74-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) laminitis to solitary confinement successful either the Al-Qadir Trust lawsuit oregon the Toshakhana-II case.
It is alleged that jailhouse authorities had kept him successful isolation for astir 22 hours regular implicit the past six months without immoderate ineligible sanction.
Citing the Pakistan Penal Code and the Pakistan Prisons Rules, the petition stated that solitary confinement could lone beryllium awarded by a tribunal and could not transcend 14 days astatine a time.
The petition termed the “prolonged isolation” arsenic “patently illegal, devoid of lawful authority, and amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment”.
The petition further alleged that Mr. Khan had mislaid 85% of the imaginativeness successful his close oculus owed to an ailment for which helium had been taken to PIMS Hospital connected 4 occasions.
However, it added that neither household members nor his ineligible counsel had been informed astir the quality of his illness oregon the attraction being administered.
“Despite repeated injections, determination has been nary betterment successful his eyesight, and helium has not been formally admitted to immoderate infirmary for due diagnosis,” the petition stated.
According to the petition, Mr. Khan informed his counsel during court-mandated meetings that his wife, Bushra Bibi, was besides being kept successful solitary confinement for 24 hours a time astatine the aforesaid jail.
The petition requested the tribunal to state “the solitary confinement and incommunicado detention” of the PTI laminitis “illegal, unlawful, without lawful authority”.
Meanwhile, PTI leaders were erstwhile again denied a gathering with Mr. Khan connected Thursday (May 14, 2026), arsenic they called for the implementation of the court’s determination allowing the huddles, the Dawn study said.
The IHC has allowed Mr. Khan to clasp twice-weekly meetings, connected Tuesdays and Thursdays, with his family, lawyers and different associates.
Despite the order, the erstwhile premier has been restricted from gathering visitors for respective months.
The enactment caput wide had submitted a database of six enactment leaders to the jailhouse authorities, successful enactment with tribunal orders, for a gathering connected Thursday (May 14, 2026).
All enactment leaders included successful the database arrived astatine Adiala jailhouse connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) for a gathering with the PTI laminitis but were not allowed to conscionable him, the study said.
