{"id":3869,"date":"2025-12-22T05:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/imran-khan-calls-nationwide-protests-pakistan-17-year-sentence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:45:19","slug":"imran-khan-calls-nationwide-protests-pakistan-17-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/imran-khan-calls-nationwide-protests-pakistan-17-year-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan Calls for Nationwide Protests in Pakistan Following 17-Year Prison Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, has called on his supporters to stage protests across the country in response to a court ruling that sentenced him and his wife to 17 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on his X social media account, Khan described the sentence as &#8220;psychological torture&#8221; for himself and his wife and added that he is being deprived of access to basic rights and facilities in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Khan emphasized that the protests should be held as a reaction to the court\u2019s decision, which he claims is unfair and not based on legal principles.<\/p>\n<p>The former Prime Minister further alleged that, in Pakistan, the rule of law has been replaced by the will of Army Chief Asim Munir, and that judicial verdicts are pre-written and only read out in court for enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan urges nationwide protests in Pakistan after a court sentenced him and his wife to 17 years, calling the ruling unfair and politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}