Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has appointed an eminent human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to represent him in the international courts in cases related to his “unlawful detention and human rights abuses”, it emerged on Friday.
Khan’s decision to hire an international counsel — who has also previously represented Australian journalist Jullian Assange — comes at a time when he remains behind bars at the Attock District jail since his conviction by a trial court in the Toshakhana case on August 5 for failing to properly declare gifts he received while in office. The PTI chief was sentenced to a three-year jail term with a Rs100,000 fine — a judgment that kept him from contesting upcoming elections.
While the Islamabad High Court had overturned the said conviction, he remains behind bars due to his judicial remand in the cipher case till September 13, as he was booked by the Federal Investigation Agency for revealing state secrets under the Official Secrets Act.
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