Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is healthy but struggling with the largely solitary conditions in prison, his sister has said, after becoming the first family member in weeks to be allowed to visit him.

Uzma Khanum, who is a doctor, gave the update on Tuesday while speaking to reporters in Rawalpindi, the city where her brother is imprisoned.

“He is physically well,” Khanum said. “But he is kept inside all the time and only goes out for a short while. There is no contact with anybody.”

Khanum described Khan as being “very angry” about being so isolated, saying that he deemed the resulting “mental torture” to be “worse than physical abuse”.

Their brief meeting was closely supervised, and no mobile devices were allowed during it, she noted.

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