{"id":61530,"date":"2024-01-30T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/imran-khan-pm-sentenced-prison-pakistan"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:42:53","slug":"imran-khan-handed-10-years-in-prison-for-leaking-state-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61530","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan handed 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan PM condemned trial as \u2018a joke\u2019 amid crackdown on his political party in run-up to election<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking official secrets, amid a crackdown on his political party before the general election due next week.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence is the harshest yet against Khan, who has been held in jail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-jailed-for-three-years\">since August<\/a> after he began to openly criticise the country\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/imran-khan-pm-sentenced-prison-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan PM condemned trial as \u2018a joke\u2019 amid crackdown on his political party in run-up to electionPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking official secrets, amid a crackdown on his political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61530\/revisions\/61538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}