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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Family visit Briton on eve of planned China execution AFP - Tuesday, December 29 Send IM Story Print Family visit Briton on eve of planned China execution BEIJING (AFP) - – Relatives of a British man due to be executed in China for drug trafficking said they had visited him on death row on Monday after making a last-ditch appeal to Beijing for clemency. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father-of-three who supporters say suffers from bipolar disorder, faces execution on Tuesday after losing his final appeal in China's Supreme Court, the British government and his legal team say. If the death penalty is carried out, Shaikh would become the first national from a European Union country to be executed in China in 50 years, according to the London-based charity Reprieve, which is providing him with legal counsel. Shaikh's two cousins flew to Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang region, to visit him and petition both the government and the courts for mercy, one of the two, Soohail Shaikh, told AFP by telephone. "He was not aware of what is happening and he was hoping for a pardon. We told him to keep his hopes up and we now told him that the date is set for tomorrow," he said, adding that a final plea for mercy has been made. "But we are still hoping that on some compassionate grounds, we might get a final reprieve or a change of decision," he added, saying that he and his brother wanted to give Shaikh "primary support". Sally Rowen, legal director of Reprieve's death penalty team, told AFP that the meeting lasted for 90 minutes. The charity said it was the first time Shaikh had had direct contact with a family member for two years. British consular officials also went to Urumqi to "assist the Shaikh family", embassy spokesman David Shaw told AFP. Shaikh, from London, was arrested in September 2007 in Urumqi with four kilograms (8.8 pounds) of heroin. Campaigners say he was duped into carrying the drugs for a criminal gang. He was sentenced to death last year. Britain opposes the death penalty and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has repeatedly raised Shaikh's case with China's leaders and appealed for clemency. Shaikh's brother Akbar has also written to Fu Ying, Beijing's ambassador to London, appealing for the Chinese authorities to show mercy. A protest was planned outside the Chinese embassy in London later Monday. The man's daughter, Leilla Horsnell, told BBC radio: "I'd like to be hopeful, but time just seems to be running out." The regional government in China did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the case. China -- which has not publicly confirmed the execution is to take place -- said last week that Shaikh's case has been handled properly. "China's judicial authorities independently handled this case in accordance with the law. Drug smuggling is a grave crime in international practice," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. "During the entire process, the litigation rights and the relevant rights and interests of the defendant were fully respected and guaranteed." Reprieve had said the Shaikh cousins would deliver a plea of mercy to Chinese President Hu Jintao and the National People's Congress, which receives petitions for pardon or clemency. The charity says it has medical evidence that Shaikh suffered from a delusion that he was going to China to record a hit single that would usher in world peace. Once there, he was duped by a criminal gang into unwittingly carrying drugs for them, Reprieve alleged, saying his strange behaviour was "influenced or caused by" his mental illness. The family has asked that "a full mental health evaluation be conducted to assess the impact of his mental illness" on his actions. According to the London-based rights group Amnesty International, China executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined, but the actual numbers put to death remain a state secret. 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