British Citizen Receives Death Penalty for Drug Offense

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Fifty one-year-old British citizen, Akmal Shaikh was arrested in Urumqi in September of 2007 for carrying four kilograms of heroin, worth £250,000.

Shaikh was sentenced to death by Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court of first instance in October of 2008. China’s Supreme People’s Court...

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