Akmal Shaik is a father of five who is currently awaiting execution in China for smuggling 4kg of heroin into the country. Apparently he is British – and so the British Govt are involved in talks to try and get this man released from his sentence due to be carried out in a matter of hours. I don’t like their chances – and I abhor Akmal Shaik’s actions.
The Chinese are one of the few nations who take drug smuggling seriously enough to warrant executing those who are caught redhanded doing it. I applaud this and so would any family whose lives have been destroyed by drugs. Mr Shaikh is supposedly ‘bi-polar’ – as claimed by his family and Amnesty officials - but yet has been well enough to travel extensively around Asia without his condition causing itself to be an issue. He has made travel arrangements, booked accommodation, financed his travels with money from dubious sources without hassle – but now he has been caught traffiking drugs he is declared ‘vulnerable’…?
Does anyone else buy into this…?
China is not a nation to pander to outsiders, they fear no-one and have nothing to lose by sticking to their guns (excuse the pun) and applying their laws to those who break them. They also have a human rights abuses record that defies description and is one that will never be addressed…why? because the rest of the world are too scared of them! but this fact remains – 4kg’s of heroin is a hell of a lot of overdoses, deaths and human destruction and Mr Shaikh was found with the bang lot in his possession. There’s no excuses for what he did anymore, we all know the penalties when we travel and we all know how this crime is dealt with in most parts of Asia. Yet still there are individuals who try to get away with it and get caught – if this man is as ill as he is claimed to be then why was he where he was and why had his family done nothing about it earlier…?
Mr Shaikh has a lot of people fighting to free him right now – the people whose bodies his evil cargo was destined for end up dead regardless.
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