Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were sentenced to ten years in prison for leaking classified documents. The verdict delivered on Tuesday comes just nine days before the legislative elections in Pakistan.
Imran Khan's party called the court case a "sham" and announced it would challenge the verdict in the Islamabad High Court. The party was not allowed to participate in the upcoming legislative elections to be held in February. The trial took place in prison, but the media had very limited access to cover it.