Amir Abdul Rehman Cheema (; 4 Dec 1977 – 3 May 2006) was a Pakistani Islamist and

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student in

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who entered the offices of the

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daily newspaper ''

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'' on 20 March 2006 with a large knife and attempted to murder

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. Cheema was later arrested by building security guards. On 3 May 2006, while awaiting trial and in German

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, he was found dead in his cell. Pakistanis questioned the German's official version of the story and three MPs from a coalition of religious parties introduced a motion in

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to discuss the student's death. While rumors spread after his death that he was tortured in the German prison, the German authorities produced a suicide note for Pakistan's foreign office. In the course of the investigation, the German judicial system concluded his death was a suicide.

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