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'We will continue to make representations'
by Anne Alexander
Political Editor
Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed the British government would "continue to make representations" to secure the release of a Leeds man condemned to hang in Pakistan.
Mr Blair said he understood the urgency of the situation and indicated that work is still going on to prevent the execution of dual British/Pakistani national Mirza Tahir Hussain.
Press release by family of Mirza Tahir Hussain:
Today (1 August) at the Magistrate Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, the family of a man who was killed in 1988, has refused to forgive Leeds man Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British-Pakistani dual national, who was convicted of the man’s murder in 1989. This leaves Mirza Tahir and his family in Leeds waiting for the execution to go ahead after a recent stay of execution expires on 1 September.
By Justin Huggler, Asia Correspondent
Published: 04 August 2006
Four weeks today, a British man is due to be hanged in Pakistan for a crime he almost certainly did not commit - and which Pakistan's courts acquitted him of 10 years ago. Mirza Tahir Hussain is to be executed after an investigation in which a Pakistani judge ruled that the police had "fabricated evidence in a shameless manner" against him
The Associated Press
North Carolina became the first state to empower an independent panel to
investigate convicted felons' claims of innocence and initiate reviews that
could lead to overturned convictions as Gov. Mike Easley signed the
Innocence Inquiry Commission into law on Thursday.
Information obtained from Victor L. Streib, "Death Penalty For Female Offenders, January 1, 1973 through June 30, 2005 [PDF]" with periodic annotations by DPIC