Akmal Shaikh, 53 anni, cittadino britannico, che soffriva di disturbo bi-polare, è stato condannato a morte in seguito alla sentenza promulgata in un processo di mezz’ora tenutosi l’anno scorso per essere stato arrestato in possesso di 4 kg, di eroina nel 2007.Il premier britannico, che aveva fatto diversi appelli per ottenere clemenza per Shaikh, ha immediatamente condannato l’esecuzione, Le autorità cinesi non hanno ancora annunciato ufficilamente che l’esecuzione abbia avuto luogo. Brown ha detto: “Condanno l’esecuzione di Akmal Shaikh nella maniera più forte, e sono sconcertato e deluso dal fatto che le nostre insistenti richieste di clemenza non siano state ascoltate“. “Sono particolarmente preoccupato del fatto che nessuna valutazione è stata effettuata circa la salute mentale del condannato“, ha aggiunto in un comunicato.Shaikh, è il primo cittadino di un paese dell’Unione europea ad essere stato condanneto a morte in Cina da 50 anni. La Cina ha dichiarato che le prove della sua malattia mentale sono “insufficienti”. Per giustificare la decisione di eseguire la condanna a morte, la Corte Suprema ha dichiarato in un comunicato: “La pena di morte viene utilizzata per instillare la paura ed è estremamente vantaggiosa per prevenire reati gravi come quelli di droga “. David Miliband, il ministro degli Esteri, si è unito a Gordon Brown nel condannare l’esecuzione e ha dichiarato che Shaikh è una vittima del traffico di droga. ”Condanno nei termini più forti l’esecuzione del cittadino britannico Akmal Shaikh,” ha detto Miliband. ”Non si tratta di quanto vada combattuto il traffico di droga. Gran Bretagna e la Cina sono fortemente impegnati ad ostacolarlo. La questione è se Shaikh sia solo una vittima di questo“, ha aggiunto.
Non si sa come Shaikh, che era di origine pakistana, sia stato giustiziato.Di solito in Cina, che il paese al mondo con il più alto numero di esecuzioni, viene eseguita un’iniezione letale, anche se alcune condanne a morte sono ancora effettuate con un colpo alla testa . Un reporter di Associated Press, che è stato arrestato oggi dalla polizia paramilitare mentre cercava di scattare foto nella prigione di Xishan , dove Shaikh era detenuto, ha riferito che un ufficiale di polizia penitenziaria che non ha voluto dare il suo nome ha dichiarato che i prigionieri nello Xinjiang vengono tutti giustiziati con un’iniezione letale. Sally Rowen, direttore legale di Reprieve, l’associazione contro la pena di morte che ha cercato di evitare la condanna, parla di Shaikh come un uomo “gentile che soffriva di una malattia “. Gli attivisti e i membri della famiglia avevano partecipato a una veglia a lume di candela davanti all’ambasciata cinese nel centro di Londra. La Rowen ha dichiarato: “La morte di Akmal Shaikh è un atto d’accusa al mondo di oggi, e in particolare al sistema giuridico cinese”. ”Akmal era un uomo mite, che soffriva di una malattia che lo tormentava. E’ stato tradito e deliberatamente ucciso da una delle nazioni più potenti della terra.” ”Noi di Reprieve siamo disgustati da quello che abbiamo visto durante il nostro lavoro su questo caso”.
[...] Gordon Brown dichiara: Akmal Shaikh è stato giustiziato [...]
I`M A CHINESE STUDENTE.AND FOR THIS,ITHINK I NEED TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
Akmal Shaikh `s death in criminal cases of international crime has made the rapid escalation of the political and diplomatic freezing, with the foreign
media that accused the majority of China’s disregard for human rights ,has once again pushed china to the topic of the wave above the crossing. But I want to
explain it in my opinion.this time ,isurpport the sentence.
it`s the first discussion of his spirit that most people are concerned about. firstly i need to express my condolences to his family. but we know that
this is a grave crime and the law expressly provides that gives everyone an opportunity but still made, then Prior to this, where`s the family? If you have
problems knowing that spiritual care was also careful not to enlighten, it has led to today’s tragedy for the family is also part of the responsibility.
Before his arrest is not a person of casualties, but if he succeeds, four kilograms of heroin, will lead to the breakdown of family well-being of thousands
and 27 thousand people will die! ! To solve the problem is important, however, we have more responsibility to prevent the tragedy.don`t take care only when
it has happened.after that it`s not so simple to throw shoes, money to make up for things that can be solvedwe have no amount of money, more sympathy to pay
youth and healthy body and we can never pay happiness back for once. Today is a AKAMAl, tomorrow there will be more AKAMAl.if international criminal gangs
to target on these poor people and then? it will only causes more tragedies like Akamal, the mental problem will become an excuse for those people, and they
have become the object of innocent, or ignorant remorse, or because of luck was arrested and saliva. Every person of a crime before the crime has done in the
spirit of a huge struggle, you can make half a second, you can make life a crime then the spirit of the people to a certain extent have suffered varying
degrees of combat, different from others, they can not get through. If for each crime, say that it`s their mental health problems leading to such behavior,
and then they can escape legal sanction, never have reason to be always available from the dock out of the law. Yes, in law and sympathy we will be faced
with difficult choices forever. But the law is not used to kill the people, but mistakes made by people should be well aware of the seriousness of
Enlightenment is still Lost on the thousands of wandering soul, a moment can save ten thousands of people to save ,not only the victim,but also crime.
In the Western world, human rights, we do have laws and practice on the degree of imperfect, but sometimes to save a person’s life, speaking of a
person’s right to exist at the same time we are also push the 27 thousand people and families into hell deprived them of their right to have happiness.we
are not Godand we can not let everyone get a satisfying answer, but we can minimize harm to the real sense, when the implementation of human rights so that
everyone is focused, when the law Therefore, this is not a human rights issue, is human. Nevertheless, I see a blatant disregard for the street in some
countries the youth drug abuse, but no one wants to persuade them o someone is blind to go away o to join the group,is it human rights and freedom? To meet
the requirements of quietly in seconds the drugs have deprived them of their health , perhaps even they are blamed for making strange noise. Will be this
time of the talk about human rights? So, we returned to the fundamental question of what is fair? What is the law? What are human rights? What is sympathy?
Now we return to China ,this event trigger. Quoted some of the media following information:
China news agency, Beijing, December 29 (Reporter Yu Zhanyi) – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu at a regular press conference on the 29th,
said a British citizen Ak Mao was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in China, was a stand-alone criminal cases.
Jiang said China’s judiciary has been in strict accordance with Chinese laws and legal procedures to be addressed independently. “Drug-related crimes is the
world recognized the serious crime and the serious harm to society, every country in cracking down hard. Throughout the case proceedings, Ake Mao’s
litigation rights and entitlements have been duly protected. “she said, China still retain the death penalty, China does not yet have the conditions for
abolishing the death penalty. However, China has strictly controlled and used with caution to death.
so don`t always use the level european to misure china.we need to consider the conditions of state and in china ,the control of drugs has made better
than other contries.it`s conditional on the accused out of the reality of forensic psychiatric considerations. Because a large number of suspects,
particularly those facing the death penalty, almost all require psychiatric suspects identified, apparently some people want to pretend to psychiatric
patients to escape legal responsibility, so the judicial organs of the forensic psychiatric screening of applications can not be accepted.
Drug smuggling is a serious offense in the world, and China has a history of painful memories. Now China is extremely drug-related crimes hate people, in
a recent Internet survey, 99 percent of the public to support the Court’s decision.
The case during the trial, Akmal’s rights are fully respected and guaranteed. The Chinese side has taken note of the concerns of the British side of the
case, the concerns of the British side has also been considered the Chinese judiciary. Humanitarian grounds, the China of Mao’s two relatives to the Ake
issue visas to allow their hair to China to meet with the Ak.
Xiamen University, College of Humanities Dean Zhouning 29 pairs of “Global Times” said the history of the world’s largest drug-trafficking is a British
dry, when Lin Tse-hsu Humenxiaoyan with today executed Ake hair is very similar, equally angered the West, the West is now able to use military means to
intervene in China. Zhou Ning said that from the humiliation of the Opium War memories to last a hundred years after the flood of extraterritoriality in
China, which the Chinese people gradually have a mentality of fear of foreigners, until today could not completely eliminated.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Office, Criminal Law Institute, said Qu Xue-Wu, the law has its own ruler, the Government plea not impede
justice. China’s “Criminal Law” under article IV of the Criminal Code applies to the principle of equality, in which equality before the ark to carry the
drug for more than Mao’s China, the death penalty since the law contains criminal points (50 grams) of 80 times, had the death penalty. There are a dig at
the legal profession in China expressed that Western legal definition of mental illness are much more lenient than China, and even abnormal animal in nature
can be classified as mentally ill.
According to Hong Kong’s “Ming Pao Daily News” quoted the British “Guardian” reported December 30, during the British Ake Mao was sentenced to death in
the incident, the British Government and public opinion is almost uniform-caliber right to criticize China, but also no lack of support for China’s the
practice of sound. British “Guardian” editor White (Michael White) wrote that the West of China denounced the “hypocrisy and lack of sensitivity”, accused
the British government of ignorance, forget the Opium War.
White said in the article, here related to the Sino-British history, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Cameron (UK Conservative Party leader) should not
be so ignorant of the Sino-British history. Europeans in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties of China started to trade, but the Chinese people do not need
for foreign goods, the trade deficit make European unsustainable. By the 19th century, the British East India Company began importation of opium to China,
China began a period of humiliating history. You may remember, but they (the Chinese) do not forget that they needed to recover Hong Kong in 1997, the
burning of the Summer Palace is not yet rebuild. So, faced with the Europeans on the issue today in drug trafficking, preaching, China will not waver.
Although China has executed 1,700 people each year, but the southern United States has the death penalty. Clinton and Bush served as governor had signed
the book a lot of execution. China’s implementation of the death penalty and like the U.S. is a sovereign issue, China has the right to impose its laws, but
this incident has become extremely high profile. British Foreign Office official Lewis (Ivan Lewis) even threatened to China, said: “I do not Zhizuo
posturing of the threat.”
White concluded by saying that the British side, said Akmal had mental problems, but what China’s mental health problems have different views, which is
not difficult to understand. In fact, not only China, and other judicial system can have a different understanding, for self-defense and other issues such as
the different legal system will have a different interpretation.
At the same time, another British columnist Leo Mckinstry are British “Daily Mail” on the author’s criticism of the British Government, accused the
proliferation of drugs in the United Kingdom has dared to ask the Chinese to release British drug traffickers, has shown Britain’s hypocrisy.
Leo Mckinstry has said: “The treatment of the drug problem with the British laissez-faire and the surrender of the policy is different from the Chinese
government is committed to protecting citizens from harm drug trade. I regret is not China’s severe punishment, but our country in dealing with drug
traffickers , and other enemies of society, the lack of a clear-cut moral standards or efforts to crack down vigorously. In China more than 50 grams of drugs
as long as you can carry the death penalty, so China is not only the United Kingdom to face the drug problem. British policy as a failure of their own, they
are still enough gall lesson in China, that is what hypocrisy. ”
However, we do not pick the old account but we want the whole world recognize the destructive power of drugs. we do not want to remake mistakes another
time and the chinese painful history won`t repeat itself in other contries.
(For the standard of English limitations, I hope you understand )