Amir Abdur Rehman Cheema

Amir Abdur Rehman Cheema (Jan 7, 1978 - May 3, 2006) (Urdu: عامر عبد الرحمن چیمہ) was a 28-year-old Pakistani textile engineering student who entered the offices of the German daily newspaper Die Welt on March 20, 2006 with a large knife and attempted to murder Roger Koppel, he was later arrested by building security guards. He admitted his intent was to kill Roger Köppel, an editor at the paper, for reprinting the Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Muhammad S.A.W. On May 3, while awaiting trial and in German police custody, he committed suicide in his cell.

A motion was introduced in Pakistan's national assembly by a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party to discuss the circumstances of Cheema's death. The post-mortem examination, carried out in the presence of two Pakistani officials, found no signs of torture.

Cheema's body was repatriated to the town of Saroki near the city of Wazirabad, in Punjab, on 13 May. About 30,000 people attended his funeral. Many of those in the crowd were Islamic party activists and religious fundamentalists, according to reports.

See also

• List of Pakistanis

References

• Pakistani found dead in German jail - Aljazeera news
• http://www.dawn.com/2006/05/06/top5.htm
• Man suspected of cartoons revenge plot kills himself - Scotsman newspaper
• http://www.pasban.org/pasban-amircheema.html
• BBC story, in Urdu
• http://www.ummat.com.pk/leads_news/lead13.htm Urdu language article from Daily Ummat
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4768615.stm
• http://www.ansarburney.org/news/n235.html