Pakistan's government has announced that dozens of pro-Khan protesters will be tried by military courts. They are accused of setting fire to military buildings during protests following the arrest of the former prime minister. Imran Khan believes that the use of these courts "means the end of our democracy". "This is an unprecedented crackdown," he said in an interview with France 24 from his residence in Lahore. The government is "doing everything it can to dismantle" the PTI. He draws a parallel between the government's repression of its activists and Hitler's repression of communist militants after the Reichstag fire. He says violence during demonstrations is a "pretext".
After calling for early general elections, he said he was prepared to wait until October as planned by the government calendar. But he "fears that the government will not hold these elections in October if it thinks we have a chance to win them."
Imran Khan "doesn't feel safe at all." "There will be more assassination attempts," he fears.
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