Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 7:14:05 GMT -5
Family of man facing death penalty holds UK protests
archive.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10071496.html
09/30/2006 11:14 PM | Reuters
Oxford: Relatives of a British man facing execution in Pakistan urged the country's president to spare his life, staging a demonstration as Pervez Musharraf arrived to speak at Oxford University on Friday.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, born in Leeds in northern England, is due to be hanged on Sunday. He was accused of killing a taxi driver in 1988 but was acquitted by the Lahore High Court. Pakistan's Federal Sharia Court then took up the case and convicted him.
"He has lost the prime of his youth behind bars for an offence that has no eyewitness and a crime he did not commit," said his brother Amjad Hussain, outside the Oxford Union.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said Blair raised the issue with Musharraf during a private meeting between them on Thursday but did not give any details. Security at the event in Oxford was extremely tight.
archive.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10071496.html
09/30/2006 11:14 PM | Reuters
Oxford: Relatives of a British man facing execution in Pakistan urged the country's president to spare his life, staging a demonstration as Pervez Musharraf arrived to speak at Oxford University on Friday.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, born in Leeds in northern England, is due to be hanged on Sunday. He was accused of killing a taxi driver in 1988 but was acquitted by the Lahore High Court. Pakistan's Federal Sharia Court then took up the case and convicted him.
"He has lost the prime of his youth behind bars for an offence that has no eyewitness and a crime he did not commit," said his brother Amjad Hussain, outside the Oxford Union.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said Blair raised the issue with Musharraf during a private meeting between them on Thursday but did not give any details. Security at the event in Oxford was extremely tight.