Five PTI workers arrested outside Adiala jail released after brief detention

• Political workers were filming videos of the prison, say police.
• Police say they were shifted to Adiala jail police station.
• Imran, Bushra meet in Adiala jail.

RAWALPINDI: Five Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers were released after being briefly detained by the police for protesting and shooting videos outside the main gate of Adiala jail on the first day of Eid ul Fitr.

Police said the political workers were filming videos of the prison’s premises at gate number 5, which was forbidden for irrelevant persons. They said the party workers were arrested for shooting videos of the prison.

Police said the workers were shifted to Adiala jail police station and detained for some time before being released.

Earlier, they said security was put on a high alert around the prison.

The PTI workers had gathered outside the Adiala jail as party founder Imran Khan has been imprisoned there since last year.  

During Ramadan, there were speculations that PTI founder Imran Khan might be released before Eid, but they did not turn out to be true. 

Imran and Bushra meet in Adiala jail

Meanwhile, a meeting between Imran and his spouse Bushra Bibi took place in the jail which lasted for about one hour. After that, police brought Bushra back to Bani Gala from Adiala jail, where she is under house arrest.

She was placed under house arrest at her husband’s Islamabad mansion after she and her husband were convicted of graft allegations.

Khan and his wife were sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case that relates to accusations the ex-premier undervalued gifts from a state repository and gained profits from selling them while he held the country’s top office.

Khan, who was moved to the Adiala jail in September 2023 from Attock jail, is serving an accumulative sentence of 31 years in various cases and has been engaging his lawyers, party leaders and family members during his imprisonment.