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[Rick Halperin]

URGENT ACTION APPEAL
- From Amnesty International USA


Note: Please write on behalf of these persons even though
you may not have received the original UA when issued
on March 12, 2008. Thanks!

29 April 2008

Further Information on UA 69/08 (12 March 2008)
and follow-up (19 March 2008) - Imminent execution

PAKISTAN Manjit/Sarabjit Singh (m)

The man known to the Pakistani authorities as Manjit Singh,
whom relatives claim is Sarabjit Singh, has had the date of
his execution delayed by 21 days. He had been due to be
executed on 1 May .

He was arrested as Manjit Singh in 1990 on charges of having
worked for Indian intelligence, but was convicted and
sentenced in 1991 for alleged involvement with four bomb
attacks in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people in
1990. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to have his
sentence overturned failed in 2006.

His family have claimed since his arrest that that he is not
Manjit Singh, but Sarabjit Singh, an Indian farmer who
accidentally strayed into Pakistani territory whilst
working. Manjit/Sarabjit Singh is held in the Kot Lakhpat
Prison in Lahore.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as
possible:
- welcoming the stay of execution for the man the Pakistani
authorities believe to be Manjit Singh;
- calling on the authorities to independently verify the
identity of the person with the relevant government
agencies;
- calling for his death sentence to be commuted.


APPEALS TO:

President Pervez Musharraf
Pakistan Secretariat, Islamabad, PAKISTAN
Fax: 011 92 51 922 4768
or 011 92 51 922 1422
or 011 92 51 920 1835
or 011 92 51 920 1893
Email:via website:
http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/WTPresidentMessage.aspx
  Salutation: Dear President Musharraf


Mr Hamid Nawaz
Minister for the Interior
Ministry for the Interior
Room 404, 4th Floor, Block R
Federal Secretariat
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Fax: 011 92 51 9202624
E-mail: minister at interior.gov.pk
or          secretary at interior.gov
Salutation: Dear Minister

Mr Syed Afzal Haider
Minister of Law, Justice and Human Rights
Room 305, S-Block, Pakistan Secretariat
Islamabad
PAKISTAN
Fax:          011 92 51 9202628
Salutation: Dear Minister


COPIES TO:

Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani
Embassy of Pakistan
3517 International Ct., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Fax: 1 202 686 1544
Email:  info at embassyofpakistanusa.org
            ambassador at embassyofpakistanusa.org



PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY.
Check with the AIUSA Urgent Action office if sending appeals after 22
May 2008.


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Thank you for your help with this appeal.

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Amnesty International USA
600 Pennsylvania Ave SE 5th fl
Washington DC 20003
Email: uan at aiusa.org
http://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent/
Phone: 202.544.0200
Fax: 202.675.8566

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