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Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case, will remain in jail
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240603-pakistan-s-ex-pm-imran-khan-acquitted-in-state-secrets-case-will-remain-in-jail(more links at source)
Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case, will remain in jail
A Pakistan high court on Monday overturned a treason conviction against former prime minister Imran Khan, who remains in jail on other charges.
Issued on: 03/06/2024 - 15:07
By:
NEWS WIRES
The conviction was one of three slapped on Khan in the runup to February elections, which he claims were orchestrated to prevent his return to power.
The decision by a two-member bench at Islamabad High Court was announced by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, an AFP court reporter witnessed.
"This is the first big case which was part of the political victimisation against Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi which has been dashed to the ground," Salman Safdar, a lawyer for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, told AFP outside of court.
Khan was convicted along with Qureshi, his former foreign secretary, of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022.
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A Pakistan high court on Monday overturned a treason conviction against former prime minister Imran Khan, who remains in jail on other charges.
Issued on: 03/06/2024 - 15:07
By:
NEWS WIRES
The conviction was one of three slapped on Khan in the runup to February elections, which he claims were orchestrated to prevent his return to power.
The decision by a two-member bench at Islamabad High Court was announced by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, an AFP court reporter witnessed.
"This is the first big case which was part of the political victimisation against Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi which has been dashed to the ground," Salman Safdar, a lawyer for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, told AFP outside of court.
Khan was convicted along with Qureshi, his former foreign secretary, of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022.
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