Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, has publicly appealed to X owner Elon Musk, alleging that her posts about Khan are being deliberately limited on the platform.
Goldsmith said her updates on Khan’s treatment by Pakistani authorities and his legal ordeal “do not reach the public” and urged Musk to investigate what she described as “visibility filtering on her account.” She said her sons have been barred from meeting their father, who has been held “unlawfully” for 22 months in solitary confinement, according to her post.
“A personal plea to @elonmusk My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement. X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights. Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero,” she wrote on X.
Asking Musk to fix the visibility filtering on her account, Goldsmith added: “You promised free speech, not ‘speech but no one hears it’.”
Goldsmith has previously accused Pakistani authorities of preventing her sons from speaking to their father and of threatening to arrest them if they attempt to visit Pakistan. Concerns over Khan’s treatment were echoed by his sister Aleema Khan, who has alleged mistreatment at Adiala Jail and said the family has been denied access despite regular visits. Another sister, Uzma Khanum, visited Khan on December 2 after days of speculation about his well-being and later described him as experiencing “severe mental torture.”
