Daily Archives: June 9, 2010


17 facing death ‘must be saved’

By This is Leicestershire  |  Posted: June 09, 2010 A campaign group has been launched to save 17 Indian nationals sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates. The Sharjah Prisoners’ Justice Group was launched in Leicester by the Indian Workers’ Association after 17 migrant workers were sentenced to death last March. The men, all from Punjab and aged 21 to 25, were arrested in January 2009, after a Pakistani man was killed and three more were injured during a fight in the Emirate of Sharjah. The campaign group aims to provide financial support to the 17 men and call […]