Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Responding to the news that Singapore authorities have set the execution dates of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam and another Malaysian man for next week, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Erwin van der Borght said: “The planned execution of two Malaysian men in Singapore next week, both convicted of drug-related offences, is unconscionable. But it is not too …
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The life of a man on death row, and Singapore’s human rights reputation including its treatment of persons with disabilities, are in the balance.
Singapore must halt plans to execute a Malaysian man who is due to be hanged next week on drug charges, Amnesty International said today.
Singapore’s continued reliance on mandatory death sentences, which violate international law, has meant that dozens of low-level drug offenders have been sent to death row in recent years, Amnesty International said in a new report, ‘Cooperate or Die’. ‘Cooperate or Die’ also reveals how death penalty reforms introduced in 2013, while reducing the number of …
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Singapore authorities must immediately revoke a new requirement that requires that entrances to a peaceful assembly are barricaded, and that people will be subjected to identity checks in order to enter. This restriction is another attempt by authorities to restrict and suppress peaceful activism in Singapore. On 30 May, organisers of Pink Dot – an …
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