Mirza Tahir Hussain outside a court in Rawalpindi, 1993

PAKISTAN. STAY OF EXECUTION FOR DEATH ROW BRITON

July 27, 2006: Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, granted a one-month stay of execution to Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British man who was due to be put to death a week later. The delay to Hussain's hanging came as his brother and supporters organised a demonstration outside the Pakistani embassy in London to protest his innocence.
Hussain, 36, had spent half his life in jail after being convicted of the murder of a taxi driver in 1988 - a crime he always maintained he did not commit.
Mahmood Ahmed, a prison official at the Adiala prison near Islamabad, revealed that he had received an order from General Musharraf to postpone the execution until September 1.
The Pakistani high court cleared Hussain of participation in the alleged murder seven years after his death sentence in 1989. But his conviction was reinstated in 1998 after an Islamic court took over the case. (Sources: Guardian Unlimited, 27/07/2006)