Hmm....Interesting....
Pakistani dies in German prison
Germany has confirmed that a Pakistani student has died while being held in custody in Berlin.
Amer Cheema, 28, hanged himself while alone in his prison cell, a spokeswoman for the German Justice Ministry said.
Mr Cheema had been accused of threatening the editor of the Die Welt newspaper after it printed cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
Some MPs in Pakistan have called for a debate on Mr Cheema's death after his family said he was tortured.
The BBC's Ray Furlong, in Berlin, says the torture claims are highly improbable. Torture is illegal in Germany and even the suspicion of torture would create a huge scandal, he says.
The German authorities say Mr Cheema body will be returned to Pakistan for burial after an investigation into his death.
The caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in a Danish newspaper, caused uproar in the Islamic world as Islam traditionally forbids images of the Prophet.
There were widespread protests in Pakistan which left five people dead.
A number of western media, including Die Welt, chose to republish the cartoons to uphold the principle of freedom of expression.
'Noose from clothes'
A spokeswoman for the German Justice Ministry, Juliane Baer-Henney, said there was no indication that anyone else had been involved in Mr Cheema's death, the Associated Press news agency reports.
"He used his clothing to fashion a noose and hanged himself on the grill over his window."
She gave no reason as to why he might have committed suicide.
His body was found at 0835 on Wednesday morning, German officials say, two and a half hours after he had been woken by guards.
Mr Cheeba was arrested in March.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...pe/4976884.stm
Published: 2006/05/05 12:22:38 GMT
Hmm....Interesting....
nope its sad.
No one just die in custody.. Torture or heavy abuse is the highest probability... well someone is keeping this under the loop ..
:'(...Allah rest his soul in peace Ameen WalaykumAsalaam x
It MIGHT be murder....She gave no reason as to why he might have committed suicide.
Suicide in prison, especially among young men, is actually very common.format_quote Originally Posted by Zzims
It might be guilt and shame too. Who knows?format_quote Originally Posted by Aalimah
Allah knows best, I hope his souls rest in peace and he is given a rank in Jannah WalaykumAsalaam x
Even if there is a slight thinking of suicide.. i doubt it.. guilt and shame can be dissapear... but life cant be return... Muslim are the hardest ubunch to commited such sins..
format_quote Originally Posted by Zzims
This one just hang himself ! Germans don't torture ! And don't bring me up now a story about Nazis. I speak about Germans from today !
i'm not saying germans are a volatile ppl.. but in sense.. Torture its Human Nature.. or Abuse.. not being paranoid or anything but one can hang himself or had help hanging himself.. so tit for tat
Sure, but in that case, you can only say "He has been abused or tortured" when you can bring up a proove. Living close to german borderline, I can hardly believe, german authorities torture prisoners. The pressure of the medias is too high on that. It's unlike Gauntanamo, far away from US territory!format_quote Originally Posted by Zzims
Anything can happened inside or out.. far or near.. goverments have ways to protect them selves.. hwta i said was Torture and heavy abuse is a High probability..a reason of doubt still exist.. refering to a news yesterday.. a man in malaysia is in a coma after a 24 hour custody under a prison authority... i'd say he didnt just fall on his head and went into a coma..
Hey, chances are pretty good one of the police constables was filming it on a camera phone and so we will know in a few days. He probably refused to do ear squats.format_quote Originally Posted by Zzims
But Germany is not Malaysia. Admittedly the Baader-Meinhoff group managed to kill themselves simultaneously in odd circumstances, but that was different.
Greetings Heigou,
You ever thought about starting your own blog? That's if you don't have one already. You can post these news reports all day, and others can leave comments too.
Dont get to hype on news u hear.. the squats were a procedure .. for finding hidden items in undisclose cavaties on the body.. every country has its flaws.. dont think germany has a title of developed nation means its all different from malaysia.. Crime corruption goes along way so.. when u wanna lagate news of police brutality keep it to your own.
Last Updated: Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:22 GMT 13:22 UK
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4976884.stm
Pakistani dies in German prison
Germany has confirmed that a Pakistani student has died while being held in custody in Berlin.
Amer Cheema, 28, hanged himself while alone in his prison cell, a spokeswoman for the German Justice Ministry said.
Mr Cheema had been accused of threatening the editor of the Die Welt newspaper after it printed cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
Some MPs in Pakistan have called for a debate on Mr Cheema's death after his family said he was tortured.
The BBC's Ray Furlong, in Berlin, says the torture claims are highly improbable. Torture is illegal in Germany and even the suspicion of torture would create a huge scandal, he says.
The German authorities say Mr Cheema body will be returned to Pakistan for burial after an investigation into his death.
The caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in a Danish newspaper, caused uproar in the Islamic world as Islam traditionally forbids images of the Prophet.
There were widespread protests in Pakistan which left five people dead.
A number of western media, including Die Welt, chose to republish the cartoons to uphold the principle of freedom of expression.
'Noose from clothes'
A spokeswoman for the German Justice Ministry, Juliane Baer-Henney, said there was no indication that anyone else had been involved in Mr Cheema's death, the Associated Press news agency reports.
"He used his clothing to fashion a noose and hanged himself on the grill over his window."
She gave no reason as to why he might have committed suicide.
His body was found at 0835 on Wednesday morning, German officials say, two and a half hours after he had been woken by guards.
Mr Cheeba was arrested in March.
SLAMABAD, May 14 (IslamOnline.net) – The family of Pakistani student Aamir Cheema, who breathed his last while in German police custody, has refuted the German suicide theory while the government has sent a team to investigate the death cause.
"My son was tortured to death by the German police," his father Professor Nazeer Cheema, told IslamOnline.net on Sunday, May 14.
Not only the family but many Pakistanis believe that German police killed Cheema, who was studying at the University of Applied Sciences in the Bavarian city of Muenchberg since 2004.
The Pakistani was arrested on March 20 after trying to enter the building of Axel Springer publishing house, the publisher of Die Welt newspaper, in Berlin.
He was accused of planning to attack the paper's editor for reprinting the Danish blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
German police said Cheema, 28, was later found dead in his cell, adding that he hanged himself using his own cloths.
German Ambassador in Islamabad, Gunter Mullak said Cheema wrote a will before committing suicide.
"The deceased asked for his burial in (the Muslim holy city of) Makkah and desired for offering his last prayers in the holiest mosque of Makkah in the same will."
Under Islam, committing suicide is a major sin and is explicitly prohibited in the Noble Qur’an.
Burial Pressures
Mourners shower rose petals over the coffin, hailing Cheema as a martyr. (Reuters)
Cheema'a body was flown to Lahore on Saturday, May 13, and was received by the provincial minister Shujah Khanzada, who laid a wreath of flowers on it.
The body was then flown over to Gujranwala Cantt in the official helicopter of the Punjab government where it was received by district liaison officer and Corps Commander, Gujranwala.
The family has accused the government of pressing them to bury him in their ancestral village of Soroki in Central Punjab.
"The Pakistani government forced us to bury him in our ancestral village whereas we wanted to bury him in Rawalpindi," said his father.
The family wanted to bury Cheema in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's twin city, where public opinion is more charged than in other places.
Many federal ministers have visited the residence of Cheema in Rawalpindi to pay condolences.
The government also provided helicopter to bring his body from Lahore to his ancestral village.
Rawalpindi and its environs were the focal point of activities during the protest campaign in Pakistan against the cartoon publication.
Last September, Denmark's mass-circulation daily Jyllands Posten commissioned and printed 12 caricatures of the Prophet, including one showing him with a turban shaped like a bomb strapped to his head.
The images, considered blasphemous under Islam, triggered global and sometimes violent protests against Denmark.
Pakistani Investigators
The government has rejected the German argument and has sent a team of Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistani's premier investigation agency, to Berlin to investigate the causes of death.
"We have sent a team of experts to Germany to ascertain the real causes of death of Aamir Cheema and we will be able to say something after we get the facts," one government official told IOL.
The report of German police sent to the government said Cheema had refused to go for a walk while other persons in his cell opted for it.
When they returned to the cell after half an hour they found him hanged with a cord used to tie his Shalwar (pajama).
Islamabad has raised two questions with the German government.
The first has to do with the authorities' failure to monitor the student's activities through the camera installed in the cell.
Second, what precautionary measures did the German authorities take after concluding he was a psycho patient.
Outraged
Most of the leaders of religious parties visited the residence of Cheema in Rawalpindi and participated in his funeral.
The religious groups and parties are also contesting the suicide theory and staged protest demonstrations in which the German flag was burnt.
"This is clear that he died in the custody of German police after he was arrested for making murder attempt on a person who was involved in blasphemous act," Chief of Jamat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussien Ahmed, told reporters Saturday.
On Friday, May 12, three MPs from Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal - a coalition of six religious parties - introduced a motion in the National Assembly, seeking a debate on Cheema's death case.
Thousands of mourners defied the blistering heat to attend the funeral service.
The mood of the Pakistani public opinion was reflected by the banners and posters displayed in every major Pakistani city, describing Cheema as a martyr.
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