Imran Khan has now spent 307 days in jail

LAHORE: Although acquitted in the Cypher Case Monday, former Pakistani premier Imran Khan has now spent a total of

307 days behind bars till June 4, 2024, since his first arrest on May 9, 2023, from inside the Islamabad High Court by the National Accountability Bureau on corruption charges stemming out of the 190 million pounds Al-Qadir Trust case.

Having served as the country’s 22nd prime minister between August 18, 2018, and April 10, 2022, or for 1,333 days, Imran’s May 9, 2023, arrest had lasted four days only as he was granted a two-week bail by the Islamabad High Court on May 12, a day after the Supreme Court of Pakistan had declared his detention illegal.

After being granted bail on May 12, 2023, Imran was quoted by the media as saying that he was subjected to physical force and struck with a baton on his head while being handcuffed. According to the British news agency, “Reuters,” Imran’s August 5, 2023, arrest was “a fresh setback for the former cricket star who whipped up popular support since his ouster last year in the face of a bruising standoff with the powerful military but has faced divisions within his party.”

On August 29, 2023, although the Islamabad High Court had released him on bail in the Toshakhana case, he was re-arrested just hours later under the Official Secrets Act in the Cypher case or on charges of making public a classified cable for political purposes when he was in power.