Letters to death row.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Evans Woolfe (Firm), Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Secondary citizenship ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death row inmates.

Judicial error.

Death row inmates--Correspondence.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 min.).

Place of Publication:

[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, [2007]

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Tahir Hussain, a British citizen from Leeds, was unjustly sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan for the accidental killing of a taxi driver in 1988. In this film, Tahir tells us what it was like on death row, and his brother Amjad tells us about the 18 year campaign to set him free. Only an energetic letter writing campaign involving Amnesty International led to Tahir's release in November 2006.Maria Gillespie tells us about her unjust imprisonment in Uruguay in the 1970s, when she was only 15. She was tortured because her husband was a trade unionist. The film shows that Maria was released a year later after receiving nearly 1,000 letters of support. A third case shows pupils writing letters to a 19 year old currently on death row in Iran, Delara Darabi, who claims she took the blame for a murder committed by her boyfriend.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).

OCLC:

815795956