Letters to death row

Letters to death row

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Imprint:[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, [2007]
Description:1 online resource (13 min.).
Language:English
Series:Education in video
Secondary citizenship ; 1
Subject:
Death row inmates.
Judicial error.
Death row inmates -- Correspondence.
Death row inmates.
Judicial error.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Records and correspondence.
Format: E-Resource Streaming Video Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10313307
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Other authors / contributors:Evans Woolfe (Firm)
ISBN:9781503415348
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Education in video). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition 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.
Other form:Original publisher catalog number C/2269/001

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