China executes Briton over drugs; Brown slams decision

2009/12/28 23:59:07 @Reuters: World News

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled" after China on Tuesday executed a British citizen caught smuggling heroin, dismissing pleas from the prisoner's family that he was mentally unsound. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xWso_5EuWOg:lK0m22jo9w0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xWso_5EuWOg:lK0m22jo9w0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=xWso_5EuWOg:lK0m22jo9w0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xWso_5EuWOg:lK0m22jo9w0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=xWso_5EuWOg:lK0m22jo9w0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/xWso_5EuWOg" height="1" width="1"/
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