The false claims were made in an article published on its website and its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts.
Transformative Justice Collective has been issued a correction order over false claims made in an article published on its website on Oct 2, and on the group’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts.
The false claims were made in a TJC article published on its website on Oct 2, and on the group’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts the same day.MHA said they had falsely claimed that the Government schedules and stays executions arbitrarily and without regard for due legal process, and that the State does not bear the legal burden of proving a drug trafficking charge against the accused person.
“This is almost two times the amount that would attract the death penalty as stipulated in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, and would have been sufficient to feed the addiction of about 320 abusers for a week,” said MHA, which added that his appeal against his conviction and sentence was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on Oct 24, 2019.
The ministry said that he had one pending court application, which did not seek a stay of execution, on April 12, 2024 when he was notified of his execution, which was scheduled for April 19. “In fact, the postponement of the first scheduled execution occurred due to Azwan’s own act of filing a last-minute application to seek a stay of execution,” MHA said.
MHA said that Azwan did not dispute that the drugs that were found in his possession belonged to him, but denied that they were all for trafficking.
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