This week's decision means he no longer has parliamentary immunity: he could be thrown in jail in relation to any of the four trials and investigations in which he is still either a defendant or a suspect.
In the courts, he faces criminal charges, and possible jail time, in relation to three cases, including the death of Benazir Bhutto, the former opposition leader, who was killed in 2007 while Mr. Musharraf was president.
The charity said activists including the painter Atena Farghadani, 26, have been jailed by the authorities in relation to campaigns against the new laws.
The two Labour politicians, Akhtar and Choudhary, who provided Ali's references were later jailed themselves for forgery in relation to vote rigging.
But he jailed him for a further six months in relation to the breach of his suspended sentence, making six years in total.
At the end of the year Fielder-Civil was arrested and held on remand for attempting to pervert the cause of justice in relation to an assault in east London (he was later jailed for 27 months).
Police at the University of Nevada, Reno, then filed a warrant for her arrest in relation to the allegedly stolen material, and she was briefly jailed.
She also oversaw the huge number of prosecutions in London in relation to the August 2011 rioting, which led to 1,000 people being jailed.
It was also used to jail a 21-year-old man, Tiernan Porter, for three years in relation to a paramilitary-style shooting in west Belfast.
In the interviews, she disputed the account in The Times of what she said to the man in the Arizona jail, saying, as Mr. Thompson argued on Wednesday, that it was in relation to getting a lawyer.
