Akmal Sheikh is a 53-year-old British national who has been sentenced to death in China for alleged drug smuggling.

He is mentally ill and has not received proper justice. He is due to be executed by firing squad, on Tuesday 29 December.

What you can do:

Call the Foreign Office emergency help line to demand that the British Government and Ambassador to China, William Ehrman, intervene to save this man's life.

0207 008 1500

More info:

"Reprieve - Akmal Shaikh"
 http://www.reprieve.org.uk/akmalshaikh

"Akmal Shaikh told he will executed for drug smuggling"
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8432351.stm

"Family plead for life of mentally ill Briton facing execution in China"
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/22/akmal-shaikh-china-execution