Two relatives of a British man scheduled to be executed today in China for smuggling heroin made a last-minute appeal for clemency yesterday in a case that has drawn international condemnation of China's criminal justice system.
Akmal Shaikh is due to be executed in Urumqi, capital of China's north-western Xinjiang province, after the country's supreme court rejected his appeal last week. Appeals for leniency from Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, have also been rejected.
According to human rights groups, Mr Shaikh, 53, would be the first European to be executed in China for more than half a century.
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