In September, Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, who has been in prison for more than two years, wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, describing his incarceration in a 9-by-11 foot “ cage .”

“I have endured continued solitary confinement,” Khan wrote. “All access to books and newspapers has been denied to me.” He is 72 years old and has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His letter can be seen as a plea for mercy, an exhortation to justice, and even as suggestive of his fading hopes of legal reprieve.

Millions of Khan’s supporters and members of his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), believe the charges against him are fabricated and politically motivated. Technically, Khan’s imprisonment is the consequence of an entangled mess

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