Singapore to hang another Malaysian drug trafficker next week
- Kalwant Singh, who was convicted in 2016 of trafficking heroin into the city state, is expected to be hanged on Thursday
- In April, the execution of the mentally disabled Malaysian drug trafficker, Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, triggered outrage
Kalwant Singh, who was convicted in 2016 of trafficking heroin into the city state, is expected to be executed on Thursday, Singapore-based activists and advocacy group Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network said.
Singapore has faced mounting calls to abolish the death penalty, but continues to insist that it has helped keep the city state one of Asia’s safest places.
Kirsten Han, a prominent Singaporean rights activist, said Singh’s family members informed her of the impending hanging.
“It’s horrifying how the Singapore state doubles down on hanging people for drug offences time and again, even as research fails to present conclusive evidence that the death penalty actually works the way the Singapore government claims it does,” Han said.
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Pushback against death penalty in Singapore for intellectually-disabled man
Critics including the United Nations and European Union said that hanging someone with an intellectual disability breaches international law.