Hafsah
25-07-06, 07:42 PM
Islamic Human Rights Commission
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25 July 2006
Urgent Demonstration: Stop Execution of Mirza Tahir Hussain:
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British citizen, is due to be executed in Pakistan on 3
August 2006. Mirza has been on death row for 18 years in what has been a clear
miscarriage of justice.
A demonstration outside the Pakistani Embassy has been organised by Amnesty
International this Thursday 27 July 2006 between 1030am and 12pm. The
demonstration is supported by IHRC, Fair Trials Abroad, Reprieve and Human
Rights Watch. IHRC urges all campaigners and activists to attend this
demonstration in what could be Mirza’s last chance.
URGENT DEMONSTRATION: STOP THE EXECUTION OF MIRZA TAHIR HUSSAIN
27 JULY 2006
10:30 AM – 12:00 MIDDAY
PAKISTAN EMBASSY, 34-36 LOWNDES SQUARE, LONDON, SW1X 9JN
PLEASE WEAR BLACK
Under Article 45 of the Constitution of Pakistan, President Musharraf has the
power to reprieve, pardon, remit, suspend or commute any sentence passed by any
court, tribunal or other authority. IHRC urges all campaigners to send urgent
messages to Prime Minister Blair demanding that he personally intervene in the
case to ensure Mirza is not executed and is released and returned to Britain.
Updated sample letters to Prime Minister Blair and President Musharraf may be
found below for your convenience.
Write to the President Musharraf of Pakistan.
President
General Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Secretariat,
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Fax: 00 92 51 9221422
E-mail: via the president's website:
http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/WTPresidentMessage.aspx (javascript:ol('http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/WTPresidentMessage.aspx');)
Please send copies of your appeals to the Pakistani High Commissioner in
Britain, Dr Maleeha Lodi.
H.E. Dr Maleeha Lodi
High Commissioner for Pakistan
Pakistan High Commission
34-36 Lowndes Square
London, SW1X 9JN
Fax. 020 7664 9224
Email: pareplondon@supanet.com (http://by103fd.bay103.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=5ca70c18f478e3d23042b328f31e43dc8abacf73cc236bd3 724cc3c493a1d60a&mailto=1&to=pareplondon@supanet.com&msg=3F175CAF-D191-40E9-8344-7DD027FD5F48&start=0&len=9196&src=&type=x)
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Sample Letter to Tony Blair
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Date]
Prime Minister Tony Blair
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Fax 020 7925 0918
Dear Mr Blair:
Re: Imminent Execution of British Citizen in Pakistan
I am writing to request that you act urgently to prevent the imminent execution
of British citizen Mirza Tahir Hussain in Pakistan. Mirza has been on death row
in Pakistan for 18 years and is due to be executed on 3 August 2006.
The Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, the President of the European Parliament
Josep Borrell as well as numerous MPs and MEPs have already written to President
Musharraf asking him to pardon Mirza, due to the unjustness of the entire case.
A clear miscarriage of justice has taken place which has already cost Mirza 18
years of his life.
I request you to personally intervene to guarantee that Mirza will be not only
granted an indefinite stay of execution but also released from prison and
allowed return to Britain. Under Article 45 of the Constitution of Pakistan,
President Musharraf has the power to commute the sentence and has indeed used
such a power on many occasions in the past including the he commutation of the
sentences in 2000 of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and in 1998 of Parminder
Singh Saini who hijacked an airliner from India to Pakistan.
As you are no doubt aware, Mirza is a British citizen who served in the TA and
was prepared to give his life for Britain. It is wholly unjustified that the
British government should allow him to be executed for a crime of which he is
innocent.
I look forward to hearing from you soon on this urgent matter.
Yours Sincerely,
[Your Signature]
[Your Name]
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Sample Letter to President Musharraf
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Date]
President
General Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Secretariat,
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Dear President Musharraf:
Re: Imminent Execution of British Citizen in Pakistan
I am writing to request that you use your powers under Article 45 of the
Constitution of Pakistan to commute the death sentence of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a
British citizen who has been on death row in Pakistan for 18 years and is due to
be executed on 3 August 2006.
This case is a clear miscarriage of justice which has destroyed the life of a
naďve young man. In December 1988, at the age of 18, Mirza travelled to Pakistan
to visit family. He stayed for one night with his aunt in Karachi before
travelling onwards to Rawalpindi in the evening from where he took a taxi to his
village Bhubar. Someway through the journey, the driver stopped the car and
tried to physically and sexually assault Mirza. The driver took out a pistol and
in the scuffle that ensued, the pistol went off and hit the driver who
ultimately died of his wounds.
Mirza drove the taxi to the first police station he could find and handed them
the pistol. He was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted of murder. Despite
the High Court acquitting Mirza of all offences and charges against him in May
1996, the Federal Shariat court re-tried the case, reversed the decision of the
High Court and awarded him the death penalty. The judgment was affirmed by the
Supreme Court.
This is a huge travesty of justice – Mirza has spent the last 18 years in prison
for a crime he did not commit. The case against him is ludicrous. Even the
dissenting judge in the Federal Shariat Court strongly recommended that Mirza be
acquitted due to the lack of witnesses and a confession.
Neither Mirza nor his family both in Pakistan and the UK have any previous
criminal convictions or involvement in criminal activities of any kind.
I urge you to make use your Constitutional powers to grant Mirza clemency and
allow him to return to his home in the UK and rebuild his shattered life. I
believe that you have used such a power on many occasions in the past including
the commutation of the sentences in 2000 of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
and in 1998 of Parminder Singh Saini who hijacked an airliner from India to
Pakistan.
I look forward to hearing from you soon on this urgent matter.
Yours Sincerely,
[Your Name]
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“And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of
the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our
Lord! Cause us
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25 July 2006
Urgent Demonstration: Stop Execution of Mirza Tahir Hussain:
Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British citizen, is due to be executed in Pakistan on 3
August 2006. Mirza has been on death row for 18 years in what has been a clear
miscarriage of justice.
A demonstration outside the Pakistani Embassy has been organised by Amnesty
International this Thursday 27 July 2006 between 1030am and 12pm. The
demonstration is supported by IHRC, Fair Trials Abroad, Reprieve and Human
Rights Watch. IHRC urges all campaigners and activists to attend this
demonstration in what could be Mirza’s last chance.
URGENT DEMONSTRATION: STOP THE EXECUTION OF MIRZA TAHIR HUSSAIN
27 JULY 2006
10:30 AM – 12:00 MIDDAY
PAKISTAN EMBASSY, 34-36 LOWNDES SQUARE, LONDON, SW1X 9JN
PLEASE WEAR BLACK
Under Article 45 of the Constitution of Pakistan, President Musharraf has the
power to reprieve, pardon, remit, suspend or commute any sentence passed by any
court, tribunal or other authority. IHRC urges all campaigners to send urgent
messages to Prime Minister Blair demanding that he personally intervene in the
case to ensure Mirza is not executed and is released and returned to Britain.
Updated sample letters to Prime Minister Blair and President Musharraf may be
found below for your convenience.
Write to the President Musharraf of Pakistan.
President
General Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Secretariat,
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Fax: 00 92 51 9221422
E-mail: via the president's website:
http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/WTPresidentMessage.aspx (javascript:ol('http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/WTPresidentMessage.aspx');)
Please send copies of your appeals to the Pakistani High Commissioner in
Britain, Dr Maleeha Lodi.
H.E. Dr Maleeha Lodi
High Commissioner for Pakistan
Pakistan High Commission
34-36 Lowndes Square
London, SW1X 9JN
Fax. 020 7664 9224
Email: pareplondon@supanet.com (http://by103fd.bay103.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&a=5ca70c18f478e3d23042b328f31e43dc8abacf73cc236bd3 724cc3c493a1d60a&mailto=1&to=pareplondon@supanet.com&msg=3F175CAF-D191-40E9-8344-7DD027FD5F48&start=0&len=9196&src=&type=x)
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Sample Letter to Tony Blair
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Date]
Prime Minister Tony Blair
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Fax 020 7925 0918
Dear Mr Blair:
Re: Imminent Execution of British Citizen in Pakistan
I am writing to request that you act urgently to prevent the imminent execution
of British citizen Mirza Tahir Hussain in Pakistan. Mirza has been on death row
in Pakistan for 18 years and is due to be executed on 3 August 2006.
The Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, the President of the European Parliament
Josep Borrell as well as numerous MPs and MEPs have already written to President
Musharraf asking him to pardon Mirza, due to the unjustness of the entire case.
A clear miscarriage of justice has taken place which has already cost Mirza 18
years of his life.
I request you to personally intervene to guarantee that Mirza will be not only
granted an indefinite stay of execution but also released from prison and
allowed return to Britain. Under Article 45 of the Constitution of Pakistan,
President Musharraf has the power to commute the sentence and has indeed used
such a power on many occasions in the past including the he commutation of the
sentences in 2000 of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and in 1998 of Parminder
Singh Saini who hijacked an airliner from India to Pakistan.
As you are no doubt aware, Mirza is a British citizen who served in the TA and
was prepared to give his life for Britain. It is wholly unjustified that the
British government should allow him to be executed for a crime of which he is
innocent.
I look forward to hearing from you soon on this urgent matter.
Yours Sincerely,
[Your Signature]
[Your Name]
-------------------------------------------------
Sample Letter to President Musharraf
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Date]
President
General Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Secretariat,
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Dear President Musharraf:
Re: Imminent Execution of British Citizen in Pakistan
I am writing to request that you use your powers under Article 45 of the
Constitution of Pakistan to commute the death sentence of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a
British citizen who has been on death row in Pakistan for 18 years and is due to
be executed on 3 August 2006.
This case is a clear miscarriage of justice which has destroyed the life of a
naďve young man. In December 1988, at the age of 18, Mirza travelled to Pakistan
to visit family. He stayed for one night with his aunt in Karachi before
travelling onwards to Rawalpindi in the evening from where he took a taxi to his
village Bhubar. Someway through the journey, the driver stopped the car and
tried to physically and sexually assault Mirza. The driver took out a pistol and
in the scuffle that ensued, the pistol went off and hit the driver who
ultimately died of his wounds.
Mirza drove the taxi to the first police station he could find and handed them
the pistol. He was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted of murder. Despite
the High Court acquitting Mirza of all offences and charges against him in May
1996, the Federal Shariat court re-tried the case, reversed the decision of the
High Court and awarded him the death penalty. The judgment was affirmed by the
Supreme Court.
This is a huge travesty of justice – Mirza has spent the last 18 years in prison
for a crime he did not commit. The case against him is ludicrous. Even the
dissenting judge in the Federal Shariat Court strongly recommended that Mirza be
acquitted due to the lack of witnesses and a confession.
Neither Mirza nor his family both in Pakistan and the UK have any previous
criminal convictions or involvement in criminal activities of any kind.
I urge you to make use your Constitutional powers to grant Mirza clemency and
allow him to return to his home in the UK and rebuild his shattered life. I
believe that you have used such a power on many occasions in the past including
the commutation of the sentences in 2000 of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
and in 1998 of Parminder Singh Saini who hijacked an airliner from India to
Pakistan.
I look forward to hearing from you soon on this urgent matter.
Yours Sincerely,
[Your Name]
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“And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of
the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our
Lord! Cause us