Bipolar Briton faces execution in China.
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weltweit
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Reprieve have an urgent appeal asking us to email Gordon Brown and the Chinese Ambassador to the UK Madam Fu Ying.
Details are on this page:
http://www.reprieve.org.uk/akmalurgentaction
Details are on this page:
http://www.reprieve.org.uk/akmalurgentaction
weltweit
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Well done Ceej, I hope if all those people and the Chinese embassy are flooded with emails it may make them think again and perhaps save the life of Akmal.
weltweit
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Unfortunately it seems to me it is in their interest to execute him.
The death penalty is very popular in China, the people expect drug smugglers and murderers to be executed and if Akmal is spared the people will think China is showing weakness to the west. There has been a lot of interest in China about this case.
So sadly it seems to me it is in their interests to execute him.
Obnoxiousness
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If they execute him, I will be boycotting everything Chinese.
Indeed.
And in the UK's interests to aquiesce to the execution.
As I've mentioned, this is politics.
And the Labour Party has calculated that his death will lose them fewer votes than coming out with a bit of pro-China rhetoric might.
It's all pretty disgusting really.
Under Chinese law this man will be executed.
In its current form, Chinese law is also flexible enough to allow for his sparing. This depends entirely upon squeezing juice from the UK in terms of the words of its leaders - or at least their promise of future words. It seems the UK is unwilling to do this. It would make the current govt. even more unpopular and an election is looming.
It's the nature of geopolitics, always has been.
I think the Brits are still trying to do a secret deal, while the Chinese are looking for a more public display of contrition.
It'll go to the wire.
I'll try to be up by 10:30am, but I've had a fall and am a bit sore.
Woof
Ceej
Where is my mind?
You're probably right - I just want you to be wrong. Surely it would do the Chinese more good with the international community to be seen to be merciful - surely?
Obnoxiousness
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Thank you... I've emailed Ambassador Fu Ying telling him that too.
Obnoxiousness
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I've binned their menu. I'll be eating Indian from now on.
That is a small consideration in the current global climate.
And anyway, if China goes ahead, which looks likely, I reckon the UK will look stupid in the eyes of the international community - and weak to boot.
China is flexing her muscles.
Times are a'changin'.
Woof
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From a device containing no components manufactured in the PRC I hope
I expect my iMac has something Chinese inside it, but for all future purchases, I shall endeavor to buy a minimum of Chinese products.
I'm glad I got the gender wrong. I only wish I'd also done it in my email.
weltweit
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China, show mercy to Akmal Shaikh
As more witnesses come foward, it is clear that the Briton did not get a fair trial. China should reconsider his death penalty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/28/china-akmal-shaikh-death-penalty
As more witnesses come foward, it is clear that the Briton did not get a fair trial. China should reconsider his death penalty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/28/china-akmal-shaikh-death-penalty
weltweit
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Final pleas for life of Briton on death row in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8432948.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8432948.stm
extra dry
Happy to be here
I will try to do the same boycott...if the UK government had any balls, they would have said to the Chinese
'Look if you do this, the uk will deport every single Chinese resident living in the UK, close down all the Chinese restaurants and burn down all the gambling dens, massage parlours' but they won't.
'Look if you do this, the uk will deport every single Chinese resident living in the UK, close down all the Chinese restaurants and burn down all the gambling dens, massage parlours' but they won't.
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