Akmal Shaikh a British citizen was executed today after being convicted last year of heroin smuggling when customs officers discovered 4kg of the drug in his luggage. Mr.Shaikh had not known he was to be executed until being informed by his two cousins on Monday during a meeting at the prison where he was incarcerated. Akmal Shaikh with his execution became the first European to have such a sentence carried out by Chinese authorities for more than 50 years.
The British government made more than 20 appeals for clemency based upon such issues as mental illness as his family claims he is bi-polar. Given all of this and the world wide condemnation of the execution shows just how conservative China's government really is. Never ones to accept criticism or advice from those either inside or especially outside from the worlds governments or Human Rights campaigners.
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