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    Lawyer seeks help for Singaporean drug offender facing execution in China

    Her sister claims MFA has not seen Azlinda for about a year and that no lawyers have been engaged to defend her during the last 5 years.

    Lawyer M Ravi sought help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Monday December 14 regarding the case of a Singaporean convicted of drug trafficking and facing imminent execution by shooting in China.

    In an update on Facebook, Mr Ravi wrote that his team from Carson Law Chambers has made frantic efforts in China to get a Chinese lawyer to represent the Singaporean, 35-year-old Azlinda.

    “We have just served our legal notice on Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their immediate participation and cooperation,” he added.

    In his letter to the MFA, Mr Ravi said Azlinda had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking and was currently appealing that her sentence be reviewed by the Guangdong High Court.

    Along with details of Azlinda’s trial in Shenzhen, Mr Ravi asked the MFA what it had “done for the matter and what it intends to do forthcoming?”

    He also asked: “What was the official purpose of giving $100 per month to our client for the past 6 years?”

    Additionally, he asked the MFA why the verdict for Azlinda’s case was only given after 6 years.

    In a Facebook post on December 11, Mr Ravi explained that he was acting as per the instructions of Ms Siti Ratnah, the eldest sister of Azlinda.

    His post claimed that Azlinda “was sentenced to death for drug trafficking though she was not carrying any drugs with her. It was her boyfriend who had drugs on him when they both landed in Shenzhen, China”.

    Ms Siti Ratnah claimed that the MFA had not seen Azlinda for about a year and that no lawyers had been engaged to defend her during the last 5 years.

    “Ratnah says she was told that she cannot have access to her sister at the Chinese prison. I understand that she has barely 2 more weeks before she is executed,” Mr Ravi wrote.

    He added that the Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) will start its campaign activities locally and internationally for Azlinda.

    https://theindependent.sg/m-ravi-see...tion-in-china/
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    Singapore rejects Taiwan's request for DNA of couple who dumped baby in Taipei

    Singaporean authorities turn down Taiwan's request for couple's DNA due to Covid pandemic

    By Keoni Everington
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    TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwanese prosecutors last week issued a warrant for a Singaporean couple for the murder of their baby, but a request for DNA has been rejected by the Singaporean authorities.

    On Feb. 16, the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office issued a warrant for a 25-year-old male surnamed Wang (王) and a 26-year-old female surnamed Kuo (郭) for homicide and infanticide. However, the Singaporean authorities that same day rejected a request for the couple's DNA due to the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

    According to prosecutors, Wang and Kuo arrived in Taipei on Feb. 19, 2019, ostensibly for a "holiday." Staff at the hotel they stayed at in Wanhua District's Ximending area said when the couple first checked in, Kuo's abdomen was enlarged, and she appeared to be pregnant.

    However, when the couple checked out on Feb. 26, Kuo's stomach had "suddenly disappeared," and she appeared weak.

    Early on the morning of Feb. 26, the body of the baby girl was found in a plastic bag in a kitchen waste bucket in New Taipei City's Xindian District as an employee sorted through waste collected from across greater Taipei. The worker immediately notified the New Taipei Police, who said the umbilical cord and placenta were still intact and that the baby appeared to have been disposed of shortly after birth.

    After reviewing surveillance footage of the garbage truck's route, police deduced that the baby had been disposed of in Ximending. Video of the area showed a man tossing the black plastic bag that contained the baby into a kitchen waste container at around 4:00 a.m.

    Police then tracked the man's movements and identified the suspects as Wang and Kuo. However, when police tried to contact the couple, they found the two had already returned to Singapore at 4 p.m. on Feb. 26.

    When contacted by the Taiwanese police, the parents of the couple said they were unaware of the pregnancy but confirmed the pair had traveled to Taiwan for a holiday. Wang's parents said that if the allegations were proven, he would have to face the consequences of his actions but that they would seek to prove his innocence if the allegations were unfounded.

    Police suspected that Kuo had given birth in the hotel, as they found traces of blood in the bathroom. On March 3, 2019, the DNA analysis of the bloodstains was compared with the DNA of the deceased infant, and they were found to be a match.

    On Feb. 17 of this year, the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office told the Straits Times that they have "enough objective evidence" to find the couple guilty of the alleged crimes. The newspaper cited attorney Thong Chee Kun from Rajah & Tann as observing that although Singapore does not have an extradition agreement with Taiwan, the authorities could request "assistance from the Singapore police in obtaining evidence or conveying the couple to Taiwan if they [consent] to go there."

    Forensic analysis of the baby's remains determined that it was delivered alive and had died from "unnatural causes," possibly suffocation in a plastic bag. Prosecutors have charged the couple with homicide, the biological mother has been charged with infanticide, and a warrant has been issued for the arrest of both.

    The Singaporean authorities have rejected a request by Taiwanese prosecutors for the DNA of the couple on the grounds that the coronavirus pandemic is "still raging," reported Apple Daily.

    If the baby had been discarded while she was still alive, Wang would have committed the crime of homicide under Article 271 of the Criminal Code (刑法), which is punishable by the death penalty, life imprisonment, or prison sentence of up to 10 years. As for Kuo, she may have committed infanticide as the biological mother (生母殺嬰罪, neonaticide), which under Article 274 of the Criminal Code is punishable by between six months and five years in prison.

    https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4134085

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    Lawyers for S’porean facing death penalty in Vietnam to seek stay of execution

    The human rights lawyer said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must provide a breakdown on S'poreans being held in prison in foreign countries

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) must provide on its website a breakdown of Singaporeans being held in prison in foreign countries, said human rights lawyer M Ravi.

    In an interview with The Independent Singapore published on 24 Feb, Mr Ravi opined that there should be “transparency of information”, given the precarity of capital punishment.

    Death penalty advocates and death penalty lawyers like himself, as well as NGOs, were not made aware of information on two Singaporeans facing capital punishment in China and Vietnam respectively, according to Mr Ravi.

    “At least, we are taking steps to safeguard against any unlawful execution or indiscriminate execution as such,” he added.

    Mr Ravi is representing Singaporean Cher Wei Hon, who is currently facing the death penalty for drug trafficking in Vietnam.

    Similar to the case of Siti Aslinda Binte Junaidi, another Singaporean represented by Mr Ravi and facing the death penalty in China for the same offence, Mr Ravi said that his team “had a lot of difficulty in getting a lawyer” due to hefty legal fees.

    In Dec last year, Mr Ravi said that Mr Cher’s family had reached out to him after reports on Ms Aslinda surfaced.

    He decided to take on Mr Cher’s case on a pro bono basis, as Mr Cher has three young children who are being looked after by his ailing mother.

    Finding a “very competent lawyer at this stage” where the death penalty has been handed down by the courts also proved to be a challenge in Mr Cher’s case, Mr Ravi told The Independent on 24 Feb.

    “To review this case, you need to have a lot of specialised skills, and fortunately I’m able to reach out to my network and I’m able to get one recommendation,” said Mr Ravi, adding that he is currently coordinating with the lawyer, referred to as Mr Phan.

    The team of lawyers in Vietnam who are jointly working with him, said Mr Ravi, are “very kind and they have accepted what we call ‘low bono’, as in lower amount of fees, which I think is highly reasonable”.

    “But even then, the families (are) facing difficulty (in raising the funds), but I hope they can raise that amount. But otherwise, as I said in terms of urgency, it has emerged that Cher needs immediate attention,” said Mr Ravi.

    Lawyers seeking to apply for Cher Wei Hon’s stay of execution

    Noting that Mr Cher has submitted a clemency petition to the Vietnamese President, Mr Ravi said that “we have to ascertain from (our) Vietnamese counterparts very clearly as to whether is it safe for us to just depend on the stay of execution by the president”.

    The final petition was already submitted to the president after the appeal was concluded, he added.

    Mr Ravi also said that his team of lawyers are seeking to apply for a stay of execution for Mr Cher, in view of the prospect of the latter’s case being reviewed again by the court.

    “So that is not been done yet, but we are looking into it,” he said.

    Mr Cher’s case seems to be more urgent than Ms Aslinda’s case, according to Mr Ravi, as the petition has been sent to the president.

    While Ms Aslinda may be subject to death by shooting in China, Mr Ravi noted that in Vietnam, the death penalty is carried out through lethal injections.

    “And now, once it is turned down, the lethal injection will be administered by way of execution.

    “We don’t want that. We would like to have his case properly reviewed,” said Mr Ravi, stressing that there are many “evidential issues” in both Mr Cher and Ms Aslinda’s cases that have not been dealt with thoroughly in investigations and in the courts.

    Drug weight threshold for death penalty “arbitrary”: M Ravi

    Mothership previously reported that Mr Cher had said that he transported the drugs to pay off his debt.

    Mr Cher reportedly became acquainted with a woman named Quynh at a karaoke parlour in Vietnam, from whom he borrowed VND200 million (S$11,832).

    To compensate for his debt, Ms Quynh originally made Mr Cher transport iPhones and iPads from Cambodia to Vietnam.

    However, she later tasked him to move drugs across the border.

    Commenting on the threshold of drug weights that would make an individual subject to the death penalty, Mr Ravi said that the starting point for the death penalty for trafficking drugs such as methamphetamine is 2.5 kilograms and above.

    “For heroin, it’s 600 grams. So what if it’s 599? And what if it’s 2.49? Just that 0.0 to 0.1 (kilograms’ difference). How can that make a difference to a person’s life?” He questioned.

    “It is so arbitrary … The death penalty itself has not been a solution. We all know that that penalty has only opened all wounds. As I said, it is disproportionately applied against the poor,” Mr Ravi stressed.

    Two-thirds of the countries globally, he added, has abolished the death penalty.

    “So I don’t see that (as) a solution,” said Mr Ravi.

    MFA on 13 Aug last year said that it is aware of the case and in contact with Mr Cher’s family.

    “Our Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City is rendering consular assistance to Mr Cher,” MFA was reported by Mothership as saying.

    (source: theonlinecitizen.com)

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    Man accused of killing sister now faces capital murder charge with two others

    SINGAPORE — A 29-year-old man accused of fatally assaulting his sister had his charge upgraded to murder on Tuesday (29 June).

    Huang Bocan and his co-accused, Chee Mei Wan and Lim Peng Tiong, will now face a charge of murder each by causing bodily injury to 19-year-old Huang Baoying in common intention with each other.

    The prosecution said that there are unlikely to be more charges at this point. The charge faced by each of the accused is under 302(2) of the Penal Code, which is punishable by death, or life imprisonment and caning.

    The act, committed allegedly at 10pm on 4 May at a unit in a block along Clementi West Street 1, is said to have caused bodily injury which resulted in Baoying's death. She was pronounced dead at the flat a day after the alleged incident.

    Huang, Chee and Lim had originally been handed a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Baoying in common intention, by hitting her with the pole on 4 May. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt carries a jail term of up to 10 years, and a fine or caning.

    All three will return for their next hearings on 7 September.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/sg.news...013710037.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilso View Post

    But giving an ethnic breakdown, the plaintiffs said 50 out of 77 people sentenced to death between 2010 and 2021 were Malays, 15 Indians, 10 Chinese and two from other races.

    https://www.malaysianow.com/news/202...f-racial-bias/

    As I've said if you aren't Malaysian you aren't getting sentenced to death. It's pretty grim that Singapore doesn't sentence it's native born citizens to death at all. Lawsuit will probably bring about law changes due their Singapore's ever increasingly diversity over these past 40 years from simply another Chinese expat colony to an economic hub in SE Asia.
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    October 12, 2021

    Man fails in appeal against death sentence for transporting 1kg of cannabis into Singapore

    By Lydia Lam
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    SINGAPORE: A man who imported 1kg of cannabis from Malaysia into Singapore three years ago is set to hang after his appeal against conviction and sentence was dismissed by the Apex Court on Tuesday (Oct 12).

    Singaporean Omar Yacob Bamadhaj, 41, was sentenced to death in February this year after being convicted of one count of importing into Singapore three bundles containing at least 1kg of cannabis in 2018.

    He was nabbed during a routine check at Woodlands Checkpoint past midnight on Jul 12, 2018. His father, who did not know about the drugs, was at the wheel.

    When asked about the three bundles wrapped in aluminium foil, cling wrap and newspaper in the boot of the car, Omar said they contained "plants for herbs".

    The prosecution's case is that Omar pre-ordered the Class A drugs on Jul 10, 2018 and collected them a day later near a mosque in Malaysia.

    Omar's defence at trial was that he did not know the nature of the bundles at the time. He claimed his acquaintances, known as Din and Latif, had placed the bundles in his bag without his knowledge.

    Omar and his father left Singapore on Jul 11, 2018 to buy groceries and to perform their evening prayers at a mosque. After that, Omar dropped his father off at his brother's school for an event, while he himself went to run errands.

    While at a car wash, he met two of his acquaintances, Din and Latif. Latif asked Omar to bring three bundles wrapped in newspapers into Singapore, and Omar initially said he did not want to take the risk.

    In a statement Omar gave to the police on the day of his arrest, he said the deal was for S$500 per bundle. He said he knew the "green" was marijuana, and contemplated for 20 minutes before accepting the deal as he was "desperate for money".

    However, in later statements, he denied knowledge of what the bundles were, claiming that Din or Latif had placed the bundles in his car without his knowledge.

    On Tuesday, Omar's lawyer Hassan Esa Almenoar said there was reasonable doubt as to whether Omar imported the drugs deliberately or not, and said it was "difficult to conclude that he planned all this".

    ALLEGED COERCION BY CNB OFFICERS

    Omar had argued that the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers had "coerced" him into giving admissions. He claimed that an officer threw a pen at him, and threatened him and said: "If you refuse to admit to this, I will throw both you and your father to be hanged".

    However, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said it was "difficult" to see how Omar's two earliest statements were "involuntary". He pointed out that notwithstanding the allegation that the first officer had threatened Omar, the second statement was taken by a different officer, with Omar divulging more details of how and why he imported the drugs.

    Omar only pulled back from his admissions five days after giving those statements, said the Chief Justice, who heard the case along with Justices Andrew Phang and Chao Hick Tin.

    Omar's new version of events was that his mind "went blank" when his car was stopped at Woodlands Checkpoint and the three bundles were uncovered.

    In a subsequent statement, the officer questioned Omar as to the disparities in his statements. When asked why there were differences in his accounts, Omar replied: "I said that because I was not at the right state of mind. I was feeling high from the stick I had smoked with Din. High to me is like being semi-conscious."

    The Chief Justice pointed out that if Omar had really been coerced by the officer, this was when he should have said so.

    After deliberating the case, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, saying they were satisfied that the trial judge had examined the case carefully.

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sing...gapore-2238116

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    Wow, the death penalty for a couple of pounds of weed. I obviously support the death penalty in a lot of cases, but that's horrible.

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    That’s why I hate Joko Widodo, president of Indonesia. He had the Bali 9 executed for heroin yet he’s allowing serial killer Very Idham Henyahsyah to live the good life on death row. He literally said that drug crimes are worse than murder
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    Longest-serving Indian-origin octogenarian prison executioner passes away in Singapore

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    Singapore's longest-serving Indian-origin octogenarian prison executioner Darshan Singh passed away on Sunday due to COVID-19 related complications, local media reported.

    Singh, 89, was hospitalised on October 16 for a lung infection, his granddaughter Poojaa Gill said.

    Singh, Singapore's longest-serving prison executioner, was buried this afternoon.

    He stopped working for the prison service after 2005 after serving it for about four decades.

    Singh, born in Malaysia's Sentul town near Kuala Lumpur, is a second generation Sikh Indian and converted to Islam after marrying a Malay Muslim, was the main character in a controversial book 'Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock' by a British freelance journalist Alan Shadrake, who was also jailed in Singapore for contempt of court.

    His wife Jeleha Haji, in an earlier interview, said that he was fond of telling anyone willing to listen how his Fridays were spent playing hockey and cricket.

    Fridays, Jeleha explained, were also when he was the hangman.

    In five visits by The New Paper, a Singapore newspaper, even as he struggled with dementia, he would always ''volunteer to tell us what he did on Fridays''.

    A prisoner sentenced to death is hanged at dawn on Friday at Singapore's colonial-built Changi Prison after all judicial procedures are completed.

    ''Back then, shifts were shorter. He would leave for work at 5.30am, and after he was done, just after lunch, he'd be at the Singapore Recreation Club at the Padang,'' she said.

    Perhaps it was his way of dealing with his feelings, she said.

    https://www.devdiscourse.com/article...y-in-singapore
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    Another Malaysian in death row in Singapore fails in his appeal

    Massita Ahmad
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    SINGAPORE (Nov 27): Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, another Malaysian in death row in Singapore for a drug offence, failed in his appeal on Friday (Nov 26) to start a court challenge against his death sentence.

    Pannir was initially scheduled to be executed on May 24, 2019, but found a last minute reprieve when the Singapore Court of Appeal granted his application for the stay of execution, to enable him to challenge the clemency process.

    He was convicted on June 27, 2017 by the Singapore High Court for trafficking in 51.84g of diamorphine at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Sept 3, 2014. On Feb 12, 2020, the High Court had dismissed his bid to start a court challenge against the rejection of his clemency plea.

    Earlier this month, another Malaysian Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, who was to be hanged on Nov 10, was saved from the hangman’s noose after the Court of Appeal that was to hear his last-bid attempt against the death sentence was told he had tested positive for COVID-19. Nagaentran’s appeal is to be heard on coming Tuesday (Nov 30).

    In Pannir’s case it was reported that apart from challenging the clemency process, he also sought to challenge the Public Prosecutor's decision not to issue him a certificate of substantive assistance.

    Friday’s court decision was reportedly hinged on whether the information provided by Pannir to the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) had substantively assisted the agency in disrupting drug trafficking activities.

    Under the Misuse of Drugs Act of Singapore, drug couriers issued a certificate of substantive assistance by the prosecution could be sentenced to life imprisonment and caning instead of the death penalty, said a report.

    Meanwhile, the family when contacted by Bernama here on Saturday appeared calm despite receiving the unfavorable news from Pannir who had called them around 3pm Friday after the judgment.

    “We are still calm but we cannot deny that we feel shaken a bit ..inside.. we still believe in God,” said his elder sister Sangkari Pranthaman.

    Asked what will be the next step for his brother, Sangkari said they were still waiting for instruction from the lawyers.

    “Actually, so far we don’t know what to do. We are at a loss. We are still trying to digest yesterday’s (Friday) news. But we have to do something,” she said.

    Sangkari is planning to fly to Singapore to meet her brother whom she had not met over the last 20 months due to the Singapore-Malaysia border closure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic

    “I’m thinking of traveling to Singapore again. Maybe in the coming weeks, me and my sister will travel to Singapore to meet my brother,” she said adding that during the pre-COVID-19 days she would meet her brother in the prison twice a month.

    On what her brother said to her when he called on Friday, she repeated his words “Don’t be sad. I know you will be very sad. I’m calling you because I want you to hear my voice. By now lawyer must have called you. Don’t feel bad. We will see what we can do. I want to say that I am ok.”

    Sangkari also said that Pannir is still positive and strong despite the fate that befell him.

    Meanwhile, one of Pannir’s lawyer, Too Xing Ji was reported saying after the verdict that his client has not given instructions to file any further application.

    https://www.theedgemarkets.com/artic...ils-his-appeal


    Imagine being such a scum that you are willing to ruin people's lives for a couple hundred dollars, Singapore should be hanging more of these traffickers.
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