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Pakistan’s Imran Khan facing harsh jail conditions — lawyers

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was handed a three-year jail sentence for failing to declare state gifts he received while in power. He was cited by a spokesman as saying that he was being treated like a "terrorist."

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