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Imran Khan
Incarceration
On November 3, 2007, Khan was put under house arrest by the Musharraf-led government, hours after the President declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Khan had demanded death penalty for Musharraf after the imposition of emergency rule, which he equated to "committing treason." The next day, on November 4, Khan managed to escape his house arrest, under which he was being held at his father's house in Lahore, and went into peripatetic hiding.[30] He eventually came out of hiding on November 14, in order to launch a student protest at the University of the Punjab.[27]
At the rally, Khan was captured by students from the Jamaat-i-Islami political party, who held him in the nearby Centre for High Energy Physics for an hour and then handed him over to police at the university gates. In custody, he was charged under the Anti-terrorism act for allegedly inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience, and for spreading hatred.[31]
Incarcerated in the Dera Ghazi Khan Jail, Khan's relatives had access to him and were able to meet him to deliver goods during his week-long stay in jail. On November 19, 2007, Khan let out the word through PTI members and his family that he had begun a hunger strike against President Musharraf's dismissal of federal judges, asking for the judiciary to be reinstated. The Deputy Superintendent of Dera Ghazi Khan Jail, however, denied this news, saying that Khan had bread, eggs and fruit for breakfast.[32]
Khan was one of the 3,000 political prisoners released from imprisonment on November 21, 2007
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