Capital Punishment

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• Iran Leaders ‘Flee Tehran’ Due to Death Threats by Govt Mobs

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 166
  Irani government has forced the two opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, to leave Tehran. According to Iran’s state news agency two leaders of “sedition” in the country have fled to a northern Iranian province. The top opposition leaders are Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi had fled ...
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• Letters: The right to life

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The most fundamental of all human rights is the right to life itself, and it should be the first item in the universal declaration of human rights . Then arguments about Akmal Shaikhs mental state and pleas for "clemency" would be totally irrelevant to the case ( Fury as China refuses to pardon death row Briton , 30 ...
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• How not to handle China | Jonathan Fenby

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  From Copenhagen to Akmal Shaikhs execution, the wests failed diplomacy has shown it doesnt get how politics works in Beijing What is becoming ever more clear as this year rattles to an end is that the west has no idea how to handle China. Since the relationship of the Peoples Republic will be a key factor in the year ...
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• COMMENT: POPES, PREJUDICE AND 2010

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 132
  It has been a challenging year for us gays, or should I say for us gays who keep our eyes on something more than the next club night in Vauxhall. And as the year comes to an end, those of us who are actually interested in what is happening in our so called community are [...]
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• Akmal Shaikh relatives say Britain abandoned him to execution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Two cousins break family ranks to claim Chinas economic power meant only token diplomatic effort was made Relatives of Akmal Shaikh have made their first public criticism of the British governments failed efforts to prevent his execution by China yesterday. They protested that his execution by China demonstrated ...
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• Briton Akmal Shaikh executed in China

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Michael Sainsbury; 30/12/09China has ignored last-minute pleas by the British government and executed its first European national for 50 years, putting convicted drug courier Akmal Shaikh to death yesterday.  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was “appalled and disappointed” after Shaikh, 53, died in the ...
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• Letters: Anger at the execution of Akmal Shaikh

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  We were deeply angered and disgusted at the execution of our cousin Akmal Shaikh, whose mental illness was not taken into account in his court hearing ( Fury as China refuses to pardon death row Briton , 29 December). We were shocked that, apart from Sky News, his case received only sporadic media attention during his ...
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• Britain and China: Death deplored

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  In a nasty diplomatic dance to the death, Britain and China have been exchanging carefully calculated protests this week over the fate of Akmal Shaikh. Neither side can have expected their words to change anything. British ministers and opposition leaders have expressed appropriate and genuine outrage at the poor ...
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• Executions of British citizens abroad and the extradition of British citizens

  
  Bill's Comment Page — Authority: 123
  Lets be clear about this, I am strongly oppposed to the use of capital punishment (i.e. state executions) under any circumstances. Such judicial punishments are formally prohibited in the UK and throughout the whole of the European Union and in many other countries, too.However, the writ of the British government and ...
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• NYT > World: China Executes Briton Despite Appeals

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . After Akmal Shaikh’s drug smuggling conviction, British officials pressed China to consider his psychiatric history.
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• Daily Fail and Akmal Shaikh

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 419
  The first I heard of it was on the Radio 1 news report that woke me up today, though I get the impression that I’m rather late to the game. This morning, a British man called Akmal Shaikh was executed in China. He’d been caught at an airport in 2007, carrying 4kg of heroin, which he’d apparently smuggled in ...
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• Akmal Shaikhs final hours

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Convicted drug smuggler was first European to be executed in China in more than half a century Correctly applied, the lethal concoction injected into the veins of Akmal Shaikh, the convicted drug smuggler from Kentish Town, north London, would have taken less than a minute to stop his heart and seal his unfortunate ...
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• Execution row escalates as China dismisses UK criticism

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  A defiant China shrugged off condemnation from Gordon Brown and other senior politicians todayand insisted it was fair and humane to execute a British man despite concerns about his psychiatric condition. As Chinas ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign Office for a dressing down, officials in Beijing said ...
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• China executes Brit who might have been mentally ill

  
  Crime Scene KC — Authority: 458
  Just a followup from yesterdays story: China has executed Akmal Shaikh, a British man who was convicted of smuggling heroin into the country. This is the first time in 50 years that China has executed a European citizen. The British...
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• Akmal Shaikh execution draws scathing criticism from Amnesty

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Human rights group says Chinese authorities did not take British mans mental health into account Amnesty International has joined a chorus of criticism of China over the execution by lethal injection of Akmal Shaikh, a British convicted drug smuggler said by friends and family to have been mentally ill. Amnesty ...
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• Video: China executes Akmal Shaikh

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Chinese government criticised by MPs and human rights groups after executing 53-year-old Briton for drug smuggling
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• China has made a mockery of justice | Clive Stafford Smith

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  The case made by China in the execution of Akmal Shaikh undermines its claim to have a rational drugs policy In the wake of Akmal Shaikhs horrific execution , it is perhaps worth discussing the position taken by the Chinese in more depth. Cast aside for one moment the unassailable case that we made for his mental ...
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• Chinas execution of Akmal Shaikh enrages UK leaders

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Gordon Brown, ministers and the opposition condemn regimes treatment of Briton said to have been mentally ill Gordon Brown and other senior British politicians have angrily condemned China for executing a British man said to have had mental problems. Akmal Shaikh, 53, was killed early this morning by lethal injection ...
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• China Executes Briton Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
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• China Executes Briton Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  China has executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling after rejecting appeals from relatives who said he was mentally unstable.
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