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1 week, 4 days ago

Singapore steps up executions and pressure on anti-death penalty groups

Singapore has executed nine people so far this year and dozens more are on death row for drug trafficking offences. ‘Losing another son, he couldn’t accept it’ Like almost all of Singapore’s prisoners on death row, Masoud was convicted for drug offences. Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau said the fact that Masoud’s execution was carried out in advance of the upcoming …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Singapore hangs 4th person in three weeks

Raw Story

Singapore hanged a 35-year-old Singaporean-Iranian man for drug trafficking on Friday, its fourth in less than a month, despite appeals from Tehran to "reconsider" his execution. Calling him "an Iranian citizen", Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi also appealed to his Singaporean counterpart Vivian Balakrishnan on Thursday to halt the execution. "Araghchi expressed Iran's respect for Singapore's legal framework but appealed …

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1 month ago

Singapore hangs drug trafficker, third such execution in a week

Al Jazeera

Southeast Asian city-state is among a handful of countries that impose the death penalty for drug offences. Rosman Abdullah, 55, was executed for trafficking 57.43 grams of heroin into the Southeast Asian city-state, Singapore’s drug enforcement agency said on Friday. Rosman’s hanging at Singapore’s Changi Prison comes exactly a week after the execution of a 39-year-old Malaysian and a 53-year-old …

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1 year, 4 months ago

First in 20 years: Singapore to execute woman for selling 30g heroin

Firstpost

The country has witnessed a total of 15 drug-related executions since March 2022. Singapore maintains some of the strictest anti-drug laws globally, asserting that these measures are essential to safeguard society Human rights advocates have reported that Singapore is set to execute a woman for the first time in nearly 20 years. However, concerns from human rights organizations and figures …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Singapore hangs second man in three weeks for trafficking marijuana

LA Times

Singapore on Wednesday hanged another citizen for trafficking marijuana, the second in three weeks, as it clung firmly to the death penalty despite growing calls for the city-state to halt drug-related executions. The 37-year-old man was executed after his last-ditch bid to reopen his case was dismissed by a court Tuesday without a hearing, said activist Kokila Annamalai of the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Singapore hangs man for coordinating delivery of a kilo of marijuana

LA Times

Anti-death penalty activists hold candles outside the Singaporean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday. Tangaraju was hanged Wednesday morning, and his family was given the death certificate, according to a tweet from activist Kirsten Han of the Transformative Justice Collective, which advocates for abolishing the death penalty in Singapore. In a statement, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network condemned Tangaraju’s …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs

Al Jazeera

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation for late stage cases, and ethnicities of the condemned. “The speed of these executions this year is really astonishing,” said Kirsten Han, a Singaporean who campaigns against the death penalty, adding that it seems like the government is trying to “clear a backlog”. He describes the recent surge in capital punishment …

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4 years ago

Singaporean woman faces execution in China as family launches last desperate appeal

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — The first Ismiraldha Abdullah knew that her mother might be in trouble was when she came home from school in Singapore to find her aunt sobbing, holding a letter in Chinese. It was October 2015 and the letter said Ismiraldha’s mother, Siti Aslinda Binte Junaidi, had been arrested in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on …

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