Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have been sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling gifts they had received while he was in office. The sentence came just a day after Imran Khan, who is already in prison, received a separate sentence of 10 years after being convicted of leaking state secrets by waving a classified Pakistani document during a public rally. It was later revealed that the document exposed how the U.S. government encouraged Pakistani officials to remove Khan from office in 2022 after he took a neutral stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Khan was ousted from office in April 2022 after lawmakers passed a no-confidence vote. On Tuesday, supporters of Imran Khan denounced the Pakistani judiciary for targeting Khan just ahead of next week’s election.

Gohar Ali Khan: “Today’s cipher case verdict has broken records of injustice, a bogus case that was proceeded in a manner that the arrest on the first day was unlawful and unconstitutional. The charge was framed in a way that was unlawful and unconstitutional. In this case, three orders of the High Court were violated, one after another. It was proceeded behind closed doors.”