A British Subject

von Nichola McAuliffe

96 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

At the age of 18, Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British Subject, arrived in Pakistan. 24 hours later a taxi driver was dead and Tahir was tried for his murder. Condemned to hang in the Criminal Court he spent the following 7 years on death row. Released on appeal, he prepared to return home to Leeds but was sent back to death row by a Sharia Court. He stayed there for a further 11 years.Don Mackay of the Daily Mirror was the only journalist to visit him in that time. A British Subject is the true account of what happened. A British Subject opened at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe.

• ISBN: 9781840029475
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2010
• Größe: 206 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC