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Court dismisses Imrans illegal marriage sentence plea

Published : Friday, 28 June, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 296
ISLAMABAD, June 27: An Islamabad court rejected on Thursday a plea to suspend the jail terms of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, whose marriage was ruled illegal under Islamic law.
Khan has been entangled in more than 200 legal cases since he was ousted in April 2022 in what he said was a campaign to keep him from power.
The 71-year-old and his wife Bushra Bibi were both sentenced to seven years in jail in February on charges that, under Islamic law, their marriage came too soon after Bibis divorce.
According to AFP journalists in the Islamabad district court, a judge deferred the plea to suspend their sentences and said that a decision would be announced on July 12.
Khan, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been detained since August last year and barred from standing for office.
However, the former international cricket star and his wife had their 14-year prison sentences for graft suspended by a Pakistan high court in April.
Khan then had a 10-year sentence for treason overturned this month but remains in Adiala jail, south of the capital Islamabad, over the illegal marriage conviction.
He had been cleared for release before that trio of sentences in the days running up to Pakistans February 8 general      elections.    —AFP



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