Author: | Nichola McAuliffe | ISBN: | 9781849436953 |
Publisher: | Oberon Books | Publication: | August 1, 2009 |
Imprint: | Oberon Books | Language: | English |
Author: | Nichola McAuliffe |
ISBN: | 9781849436953 |
Publisher: | Oberon Books |
Publication: | August 1, 2009 |
Imprint: | Oberon Books |
Language: | English |
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, before being revived at the Arts Theatre in 2011.
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, before being revived at the Arts Theatre in 2011.