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Indians on death row get consular access
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NewsByte on 02 June, 2008 02:26:11
 
By RAGHAVENDRA
Beijing
June 2: Two Indians facing the firing squad after being convicted of smuggling
narcotics by a Chinese court have been granted consular access.
Aksar Miyan and Hussain Mydeen, both hailing from Tamil Nadu, were handed down
the death sentence by the Intermediate People’s Court in Zhuohai in August
2007.
"We have received today an intimation from the High People’s Court of
Guangdong province that an official can meet both on June six," sources at the
Indian consulate said. An official from the Indian Consulate General of India in
Gaungzhou would meet both Aksar and Hussain and "take their statements", sources
said.
The Consulate had been pursuing the matter on a regular basis to get consular
access after the ministry of external affairs sent the "papers", sources said,
adding "we were working on it". The ministry of external affairs action followed
a plea by the family of Aksar to plead for commutation of his death sentence to
"any kind of jail term". —PTI