Islamabad, 9 May (AKI/DAWN) - Germany on Monday shared with Pakistan the alleged suicide note of Amir Cheema, who was found dead in a Berlin prison while he faced a trial for allegedly trying to attack the editor of a German publication which published the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. The move came a day before a team of the Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency was scheduled to leave for Berlin to investigate the circumstances under which the 28-year-old student had died.Sources in the German embassy told the Pakistani daily Dawn that the suicide note had been handed over to the Pakistani Foreign Office. They claimed that the note written in Urdu showed that that Cheema had committed suicide.
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Cheema's family in Rawalpindi has claimed that he had been tortured to death by German authorities. On Friday, Pakistan's state run APP news service, reported that three opposition lawmakers from Pakistan's six-party religious alliance Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) introduced a motion in the national assembly, asking for a debate on the death of Cheema in his Berlin cell. They said the student had been tortured to death. The assembly speaker, Chaudhry Ameer Hussain, allowed the motion to be debated at an unspecified date.