BEIJING -- China executed a British man for drug smuggling, ignoring international pleas for clemency on the grounds he was mentally unstable and warning London that its outrage threatened relations.

THE execution in Xinjiang on December 29th of a Pakistan-born British drugs mule, Akmal Shaikh, is the first of a European citizen in China in over half a century. Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...

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Mental illness and the wheels of justice intersect yet again as the actor Stephen Fry, who suffers from bipolar disorder, is currently beseeching the Chinese government not to execute fellow Briton ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. British consular officials were in China's far-western Xinjiang region on Monday to assist the ...

Amnesty International today (20 October) issued an urgent appeal on behalf of a British man who could be executed in China within days. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of five from north London who ...

Amnesty International today (22 December) called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to urgently appeal to Chinese Premier Hu Jintao to stop a British man being executed in less than seven days from now.

Two cousins of a Briton facing execution in China are heading to the country to make a last-ditch mercy plea. Akmal Shaikh, 53, from Kentish Town in north London, is due to be put to death on Tuesday ...

A British citizen sentenced to death for drugs trafficking in China is to plead his case at an appeal court. Akmal Shaikh, from Kentish Town, London, was arrested on 12 September 2007 in Urumqi, north ...

Amnesty International today (20 October) issued an urgent appeal on behalf of a British man who could be executed in China within days. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of five from north London who ...