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Australia: Populate and We Will PerishDid Akmal Shaikh Deserve To Be Executed For Selling Drugs?
Following two years of failed appeals, 53-year-old Akmal Shaikh was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday morning at a prison in Urumqi, China. In 2007, Shaikh was convicted by Chinese officials of smuggling drugs in a suitcase from nearby Tajikstan. The father of three denied any knowledge of the four kilograms of heroin found in luggage reportedly belonging to Shaikh. Read more
Gordon Brown leads outcry as China executes British man, Akmal Shaikh
Gordon Brown today led condemnation of China for executing a mentally ill British man who had been convicted of drug smuggling.
Defiant China claim ‘no one has right’ to comment on its judicial sovereignty
Family say they are ‘deeply saddened, stunned and disappointed’
Akmal Shaikh, 53, was put to death by lethal injection just after 4am at Xishan detention centre in the western Urumqi province. Read more
Mentally Ill Brittish Man Faces Execution in China
Vikram Dodd talks to Akbar Shaikh, whose brother Akmal faces execution in China
The family of a British man who faces execution in China in less than a week begged today for his life to be spared.
Akmal Shaikh is due to be executed on 29 December after being convicted of heroin smuggling. His family claim a drugs gang exploited his mental illness to trick him into smuggling 4kg of heroin into China.
Efforts to save the life of Shaikh, 53, from north London, have intensified after the Chinese supreme court rejected his plea for clemency and upheld the death sentence yesterday.
From the Guardian UK