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• Four foreigners face execution over China drugs: report (in addition to the executed Brit)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Four foreigners face execution over China drugs: report (AFP) – 5 hours ago HONG KONG — Four foreigners could face the death penalty in China after their arrests in connection with a major heroin bust, a report said Thursday, days after the execution of a Briton convicted on drugs charges. The foreigners are among ...
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• Best of 2009, the Year of Execution

  
  Conversation Agent — Authority: 585
  Strap yourself in, this is going to be quite a ride! As it is tradition -- and super requested by many -- this is my annual recap of the most dialed in conversations of the year. As we progress through them, you will see how theyre all somehow connected to the same thread. Did we do what we said we would? ...
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• 4 Foreigners Face Chinese Execution

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 454
  It’s been reported in Hong Kong that 4 more foreigners are facing execution in China due to heroin smuggling. This news comes on the heels of China and Britain clashing over a Briton being found guilty and executed on Tuesday for the same offense. The 4 foreigners are said to be among 9 people arrested for more ...
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• Four foreigners face execution over China drugs: report (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AFP - Four foreigners could face the death penalty in China after their arrests in connection with a major heroin bust, a report said Thursday, days after the execution of a Briton convicted on drugs charges.
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• Another ‘ Lucy’ From a Lennon

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Julian Lennon on emerging from his fathers shadow and on new single Lucy - the second Lennon song to be written about his childhood friend who recently died of complications from Lupus. (Dec. 30)
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• Jobs Are Hot in One of Earth’s Coldest Places

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Thousands of people have applied for fewer than a dozen open jobs at a British research base on the Antarctic peninsula. (Dec. 30)
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• A New Kind of Rally in Iran

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders. (Dec. 30)
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• Loose Ends

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 123
  I write most of the posts that end up on this blog on my BlackBerry , the memo pad allows me to capture ideas as soon as I think of them.  I could be waiting for a client, or standing in line at the bank, or waiting for a show to start, idea pops up, bam, it’s in the blog run.  Some get worked on right away, ...
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• CAST NOT THE FIRST STONE

  
  The Barrister Bard — Authority: 103
    By all accounts, Akmal Shaikh, a 53 year old Pakistani whose family settled in England when he was a boy, has been executed following his conviction of importing nearly 9 pounds of heroin into China.   Needless to say, the importation of drugs is a capital crime.   The background to Mr. Shaikh’s execution ...
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• Relatives of Briton executed in China slam media, government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 30 (IANS) Relatives of a Briton executed by China Wednesday blamed the British media, government and human rights campaigners for not pleading his case early or strongly enough.“This is an example of Britain’s powerlessness in the world,” said Amina and Ridwan Shaikh, whose cousin Akmal Shaikh was ...
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• Row After China Executes Briton

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 454
  Despite last-minute pleas for clemency on Tuesday, China executed a Briton who was said to have serious mental health issues. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old with three children, was executed for drug smuggling. This has now drawn furious criticism from rights groups, London and the European Union, as well as many other ...
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• Britain Condemns China Execution of Mentally Ill British Citizen

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has expressed strong reactions over the execution of a British national in China on charges of drug smuggling yesterday morning. ‘I condemn the execution of Akmal Shaikh in the strongest terms and am appalled and disappointed that our persistent requests for clemency have not ...
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• Execution row escalates as China dismisses UK criticism.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 137
  The Chinese government have been quick to dismiss British criticisms of their decision to go ahead and execute Akmal Shaikh, giving one the distinct impression that relations between the two countrys is seriously undermined. In a "difficult" meeting at the Foreign Office, the UK minister Ivan Lewis told the ...
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• A state of madness.

  
  The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy — Authority: 122
  Akmal Shaikh has been executed, or should I say, assassinated, by China. His crime was to be delusional. His punishment was death.The whole developed world pleaded with China to stay his execution and commute his sentence...but China, in its pig-headed way, ignored them. In China, the opinion of the whole world, has ...
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• Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker – Washington Post

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  Globe and Mail Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker Washington Post Britain and China were engaged in a fierce diplomatic argument Tuesday after the Chinese government executed a British citizen for drug trafficking despite claims that he was mentally ill and unfit to ...
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• What Price Human Rights?

  
  Moreton and Saughall Massie Matters — Authority: 131
  In October I blogged on the Council spending £28,000 on a trip to Shanghai for the World Expo next year.     I argued then that we should be using that money to deliver basic services in Wirral, such as re-instating the school crossing patrols that were axed, or refurbishing Linear Park in Moreton.   I still ...
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• Akmal Shaikh: what is bipolar disorder?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Bipolar disorder, from which Akmal Shaikh is believed to have suffered, was formerly known as manic depression and involves extreme mood swings from deep depression to overactive "mania".
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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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• Britain is fighting the wrong battle with China

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 964
  Telegraph View: Gordon Brown shouldnt risk a diplomatic row with the Chinese.
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• China Executes Briton Akmal Shaikh Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 580
  British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed by Chinese authorities yesterday for smuggling heroin. As reported earlier on CDT , the case was regarded as controversial given Shaikh’s family’s claims that he had a mental illness and had been manipulated by a gang into smuggling the drugs. From the New York Times ...
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