PTI submits memorandum to SC over founder's alleged rights violations in Adiala Jail
Pakistan
PTI submits memorandum to Supreme Court alleging rights violations of its founder in Adiala Jail, citing denied medical access, restricted visits, and prolonged delays in judicial hearings.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and opposition parties submitted a memorandum to the Registrar of the Supreme Court concerning alleged violations of the basic and human rights of PTI founder, currently imprisoned in Adiala Jail.
The memorandum was addressed for the attention of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Yahya Afridi.
According to the memorandum, reports emerged that the PTI founder underwent a secret and urgent medical procedure at PIMS, which the government denied for five days before acknowledging. The founder’s family was kept unaware of the medical situation, contrary to prison regulations. Bushra Bibi, who met the founder for the first time after November 4, 2025, disclosed that he had suffered eye pain for two weeks without examination.
The memorandum states that only when the pain intensified did PIMS doctors examine him and recommend immediate hospitalization. Despite this, personal doctors were not allowed to meet him.
The PTI memorandum also highlighted that a week after a visit to the Supreme Court by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and hundreds of parliamentarians, medical reports were still not shared with the family. Court-ordered meetings were repeatedly denied, with the founder’s last family visit recorded on December 2, 2025. The founder has been imprisoned since August 5, 2023.
The memorandum accused authorities of consistently violating the founder’s basic rights, restricting access to family, lawyers, and friends, and maintaining solitary confinement—actions classified as abuse under international and Pakistani law.
It further claims that the Islamabad High Court has failed to act on contempt petitions, prompting PTI to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court directed that the appeal be filed in the Federal Shariat Court, but a hearing has yet to be scheduled. Applications regarding the founder and Bushra Bibi’s rights remain unheard, and requests for sentence suspension have been pending for over a year.
