50,000 Attend Funeral of Man Held in Germany
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From Times Wire Reports
More than 50,000 people attended the funeral of a Pakistani student who died while under arrest in Germany for allegedly planning to attack a newspaper that published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
German police say Amer Cheema, 28, hanged himself in his Berlin prison cell on May 3 using a noose made from his clothes.
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