Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of ex-Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, has publicly asked X owner Elon Musk to investigate what she says is deliberate suppression of her posts about Khan on the platform. Goldsmith says her updates on Khan’s legal situation and treatment by Pakistani authorities “do not reach the public” and urged Musk to look into alleged visibility filtering on her account.
Goldsmith said her two sons have been prevented from seeing or speaking with their father, who she says has been held in solitary confinement for 22 months, a condition she says the UN regards as unlawful. Writing on X and addressing @elonmusk, she argued the platform is one of the last places to publicize Khan’s status as, in her words, a political prisoner, but that the reach of her posts inside Pakistan—and often beyond—is being throttled to almost zero.
She appealed to Musk to “fix the visibility filtering” and reminded him of his promise of free speech, adding that free speech is meaningless if “no one hears it.”
Goldsmith has previously accused Pakistani authorities of blocking her sons from contacting Khan and of threatening to arrest them if they try to visit Pakistan. Concerns about Khan’s treatment have also come from his family: his sister Aleema Khan alleges mistreatment at Adiala Jail and says the family has been denied access, while another sister, Uzma Khanum, visited Khan on December 2 and described him as suffering “severe mental torture.”
