Singapore executed a man for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman Friday \u002D\u002D the first in 19 years
“Singaporean authorities must immediately stop these blatant violations of the right to life in their obsessive enforcement of misguided drug policies,” Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary-general of the International Federation of Human Rights, said in a statement.
Anyone — citizens and foreigners alike — convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis and 15 grams of heroin faces the mandatory death penalty.Article content The joint statement by Transformative Justice Collective and other groups noted that Law Minister K. Shanmugam reportedly acknowledged in a 2022 interview that Singapore’s harsh policy on drugs has not led to the arrest of the so-called drug kingpins.
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