Imran Khan's ex-wife Jemima's 'personal plea' to Elon Musk over 'suppressed' X posts

Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, has made a public plea to X owner Elon Musk, claiming that her posts about Khan’s situation are being deliberately limited on the platform.

Goldsmith said her updates about Khan’s treatment by Pakistani authorities and legal ordeal “do not reach the public” and called on Musk to address what she described as “visibility filtering on her account”.

In her post on X, Goldsmith said her sons have been barred from meeting their father, who has been “held unlawfully” for 22 months in solitary confinement.

“A personal plea to @elonmusk My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement. X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights.

“Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero,” she wrote.

Asking Musk to fix the visibility filtering on her account, she added: “You promised free speech, not ‘speech but no one hears it’.”

Goldsmith has previously accused Pakistani authorities of preventing her sons from speaking to their father, even threatening to arrest them if they attempt to visit Pakistan.

Concerns over Khan’s treatment were echoed this week by his sister, Aleema Khan. She alleged that he is being subjected to mistreatment in Adiala Jail.

“We have been coming here for the last 8 months. We come here and sit every Tuesday. We are not allowed to meet Imran Khan. They are torturing him. He has been kept in illegal isolation. They should end this torture against Imran Khan,” she said outside Adiala Jail on Wednesday.

Another sister, Uzma Khanum, visited him on December 2 after days of speculation over his well-being, later claiming that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was facing “severe mental torture.”