PTI’s imprisoned leader Yasmin Rashid was transferred to a hospital in Lahore on Tuesday after his health deteriorated in Kot Lakhppp’s prison, his lawyer said.
Rashid has been in prison for more than two years in relation to multiple cases against him with respect to the events of May 9. It was first arrested on May 12, 2023, under the maintenance of the public order ordinance and then arrested for its alleged participation in the disturbances of May 9.
“Yasmin Rashid was transferred from the prison to the emergency department of the Hospital de Servicios,” according to his lawyer Rana Mudassar.
He added that Rashid was experiencing severe difficulty to breathe and also suffered extreme stomach pain.
“Dr. Yasmin Rashid has also been given oxygen due to his difficulty breathing,” Mudassar said, added that he was being tested in the hospital.
PTI’s secretary of information, Sheikh Waqas Akram also confirmed the development in an X publication.
“Dr. Yasmin Rashid has just been urgently transferred from the Kot Lakhpat prison to a hospital due to its health deterioration,” he wrote.
He added that Rashid suffered from several ailments and “has been unjustly imprisoned for 24 months.”
“PTI demands that, maintaining the requirements of justice in sight, the bond of Dr. Yasmin be granted,” he added.
The lawyer Taimur Malik, who played the 2024 surveys with the support of the PTI and is a member of the party’s legal team, also asked Rashid to “grant him the right to set as thousands of others in these cases.”
He said they have asked the courts repeatedly to decide their bail requests.
“More than two years in prison as a deputy prisoner is a punishment in itself before any case has been decided,” he added.
The leader of PTI, Musarrat Chema, said: “Rashid is a cancer survivor; he also has a respiratory problem, but did not even receive oxygen.
“Every day, he supports prison trials in false cases,” said Cheema, requesting sentences for his health.
On July 12, an anti -terrorist court reserved its verdict on the bail requests of the former Punjab governor, Umar Sarfraz Chema and Rashid, in cases related to the disturbances of May 9.
The same day, Rashid and four other high -level leaders PTI imprisoned in the Kot Lakhppp prison demanded fresh, free and fair general elections in the country in an open letter, and asked for learning lessons from the 1970 debacle.
