At last, Mirza Tahir Hussain has been freed. This man was sentenced to death in Pakistan after a Sharia court over-ruled the secular High Court's decision that he was innocent of the murder of a taxi driver.
Even though he spent 18 years in jail, with repeated last-minute stays of execution, and his sentence was merely commuted rather than the acquittal upheld, he is coming home.
I posted about this some months ago, and I would like to extend my thanks to any orgahs who wrote to President Musharraf under the Amnesty alert I linked to. Whereas it was Prince Charles' intervention that finally made the difference, the international pressure on Pakistan has been substantial, and the Foreign Office was never allowed to forget this man's plight.
There is good news in the world now and again. Thanks once more.
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