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Pakistan ex-PM Khan, wife appeal graft convictions: lawyer

Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Monday appealed their convictions for graft, his lawyer said.

27 January 2025, MVT 15:13
Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's lawyer Khalid Yousaf Chaudhry, addresses media after submiting appeals against their convictions for graft, at the High Court in Islamabad on January 27, 2025. Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi appealed their convictions for graft, his lawyer said on January 27. Khan was sentenced to 14 years and his wife to seven earlier this month in the latest case to be brought against them. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
27 January 2025, MVT 15:13

Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Monday appealed their convictions for graft, his lawyer said.

Khan was sentenced to 14 years and his wife to seven earlier this month in the latest case to be brought against them.

"We have filed appeals today and in the next few days it will go through clerical processes and then it will be fixed for a hearing," Khan's lawyer Khalid Yousaf Chaudhry told AFP.

The papers were filed at the Islamabad High Court.

A special graft court found the pair guilty of "corruption and corrupt practices" over a welfare foundation they established together called the Al-Qadir Trust.

Khan, 72, has been held in custody since August 2023 charged in around 200 cases which he claims are politically motivated.

© Agence France-Presse

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