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Authorities Singapore confirmed two new executions for drug trafficking scheduled for this Friday, bringing the total number of executions since March to ten, an unprecedented number in recent years, drawing criticism from UNwho asked the island to stop the executions.
One of the prisoners executed early on Friday morning has been identified as Rahimtried to stay the day before by attending a lengthy hearing via videoconference in response to a historic complaint against island government and the Attorney General, filed by him and 22 prisoners sentenced to death.
Position against death
Introducing themselves, anti-death penalty activists report in Singaporein it, they argued that the island was denying them access to justice because the fees charged to lawyers defending death row inmates in the latter stages of the process were so high that they were deterred from participating.
According to Kirsten Hahn, Coordinator NGO team “Transformative Justice”After several hours of deliberation until early Friday morning, the court denied the request, declaring it an “abuse” of the process, and Rahim had an hour to say goodbye to his family before he was hanged.
Khan adds on his Twitter account that the family is now at the Changi Island prison to “identify and collect the body,” while the identity of the other prisoner, who is also due to be executed this morning, is unknown.
More executions
The judiciary confirmed on Thursday that two executions were scheduled for early Friday morning, but Singapore usually does not disclose information about prisoners and usually does not officially confirm them, depending on the information that the family of convicts shares with activists such as They have.
Last Tuesday, two more prisoners were executed for drug trafficking, a 34-year-old Malaysian and a 46-year-old Singaporean.
They have told Efe today that there have not been so many executions – so far all for drug trafficking – since at least 2010, and that the annual trend has been downward – about a dozen or less – from the high numbers of hangings in the 1990s, when their number could exceed 70 per year.
Singapore and enforcement
From the end of March Singapore hanged ten prisoners for drug trafficking and activists warn that more than fifty are still on death row, overcrowded as a result of the cessation of executions in the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic, which is now speeding up executions.
UN office human rights asked Singapore stop the executions scheduled for this week by imposing a moratorium on those executions.
Modern city state Asia, home of skyscrapers and an innovation lab par excellence, has one of the most draconian anti-drug laws on the planet, punishing the gallows for trafficking more than 15 grams of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine, 500 grams cannabis and 250 grams of methamphetamine.
(EFE)
Source: RPP
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