Imran Khan must get 'humane treatment and proper medical care' in prison, ex-cricket captains urge Pakistan
The captains said the court-ordered medical board must finish its assessment and any recommended treatment should begin without delay.
- On Sunday, 21 former international cricket captains led by Greg Chappell wrote to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, urging "humane treatment and proper medical care" for Imran Khan, who has spent over three years in custody.
- Six months after 14 former captains first appealed, the group wrote again following reports that Khan was returned to Adiala Jail after a brief hospital stay, bypassing a court-ordered independent medical assessment.
- While the Court directed a medical board including Khan's personal physicians to examine him, a state-appointed team declared him "medically fit" after just a few hours, then returned him to Adiala Jail before that board could complete its work.
- The signatories requested that an independent medical board complete a full assessment of Khan's health, particularly his reported vision loss, and that weekly family visits reinstated by the Court be honored without interruption.
- Emphasizing they do not presume to adjudicate Pakistan's domestic legal processes, the group argued that ensuring a court-ordered medical process is completed is a matter of basic decency every cricketing nation would recognize as fair.
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