It’s been three years since then-19-year old Vui Kong was sentenced to death in Singapore.
He’s been sitting on death row since 2007 at Changi Prison awaiting the day he would be hanged.
For someone so young, that in itself is torture.
His family, particularly his brother Yun Leong and sister Vui Fung [picture right, campaigning in Sabah], has been campaigning tirelessly for Vui Kong’s sentence to be commuted and he be given a second chance.
The Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) and The Online Citizen (TOC) lend our voices to the plea.
We would like to ask you, our readers and your friends, to help support the call as well.
SADPC and TOC will be holding a petition signing event at Speakers Corner on 1 August to garner signatures to appeal to the president to grant Vui Kong a reprieve. The signatures collected will be sent to the campaign in Malaysia to be delivered eventually to the president of Singapore, Mr SR Nathan.
Besides the signing of the petition, participants will also be able to say a message of support which will be recorded on video. We will use these for a second campaign clip. [Here's our first campaign video.]
Please do give an hour or so of your time to lend your voice to Vui Kong’s family and to Vui Kong who cannot speak for himself as he sits alone on death row.
The details of the event are as follow:
Event: Give Vui Kong A Second Chance
Date: 1 August 2010
Time: 4pm – 6pm
Venue: Speakers Corner (Hong Lim Park)
How to get there: Take the NEL to Clark Quay MRT station and use Exit “A”. It’ll bring you directly into Speakers Corner.
Programme:
- Petition-signing, an appeal to the president of Singapore to grant Vui Kong’s clemency appeal.
- Announcement of continuation of Facebook photo project
- Recording of messages on video from participants
- Short speeches
- Taking of a group photo (6pm)
The clemency appeal must be submitted to the president by 26 August. And depending on how the president decides, Vui Kong could be hanged anytime after that.
This could be the final opportunity for us to do something to save Vui Kong.
Please come join us this Sunday.
Thank you.
*In the meantime, please sign the online petition here.
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Yes, Bring forward singapore.
from i have read, president does not have the authority to grant clemency. The cabinet has the power so the petition should be to the singapore govt?
it’s so sad that our dear president do not even have the power to grant any clemency, I wonder how is he going to represent for the entire citizens of singapore, sad days for our all singaporeans.
I think the petition should go to LKY instead and not to that prata man! He is useless. Just a puppet and collect millions of dollars every month and eat sumptous food and wear luxurious clothings everyday, and seat in a comfortable 4 wheels with bodyguards protect him. What kind of president is he? Should go to roadside and sweep the floor for singaporeans instead. Does he deserve to be in this position or not in the first place? Shame on him, his wife , his childrens, his parents, grandparents, greatgreat grandparents and all the way down…….
This roti prata man is never and can never make decision. The real decision maker is none other than our No. 1 great magician and illuisionist , Mr LKY!
Go to him instead and plead him for clemency for Vui, rather than goes to this useless indian prata man.
Never mind about the roti prata man or his puppet masters.
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We are going to show up to face ‘Death’ face to face. We will stare ‘Death’ in the face together with Vui and his family.
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It is the only way we can feel and understand what Vui and his family is going through.
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It is the only way for those of us who do not know what else to do to do something.
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We can take a stand to plead for clemency for Vui.
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It is the least we can do, for those who believe every life has a value that cannot be distinguished by another simply because it is deemed to have lost its value to life, to live.
Maybe we can also ask LKY’s daughter whether she is equally concerned for Kong’s life as she would for the CK Tang man. Both are human beings, you know.
If she is really compassionate, she should really plead to both her brother and father to give Kong another chance.
I will be there…. see you all
Yes, i will be there to support,
lets pull our friends there too,
its the only thing we can do in this sickening singapore.
Being there make us more human.
Why do we always help the drug mules on death row. What about those murderers. Double standards in saving people from death penalty?
i will be there also, i urge all those with young childrens ,upper primary sch to sec sch bring their child along, to shows our younger generation a sence of humanity in us. our heart is make of fresh not stone.
So happy to see over 12,000 over signatures in support of the cause to save this young chap from malaysia.
The numbers far surpassed that of TKL call for supporting him in an earlier event.
Give this young life a second chance, it is not about sending a wrong message but how he can saved many more with his real life experience.
@watchtower- I hope you will not take it as practising double standard. In a murder case a life is lost and there can be many reasons for the act and before the accused is sentenced there are evidences from experts and DNA test are used where needed. To overcome this death sentences I will surely prefer a jury. A multi mis in all sense.Drug trafficking and mules.It is a sad situation where young and old, due to hardships, being threatened, duped etc are made used of.Death will not stop use of drugs. After so many hangings the drug trade is thriving around the world. The drug barons are enjoying life with their strong connections through investment and funding of parties, campaigns and projects.Check this out and you will be amazed. What about the group of cocaine abusers an elite group I beleive, who got away lightly in Singapore. Vui Kong must be counselled and integrated back to society. The family is going through a lot and Singaporeans knows that death sentence has not stopped drugs from getting into Singapore. Hope the authorities will give him achance and do away with death sentence which is cruel and barbaric. A prison sentence will surely do good
Is TAKING AWAY a LIFE of a HUMAN BEING Respectful of Life of another Human being?
This, is a question.
I was planning to go earlier Andrew. But I have been hearing some very disturbing things about how the facts here are presented. Dont get me wrong. There is plenty of heart here. But what about the mind? just my two cents.
While they are at speaker’s corner, the PAP will try their best to undermine the whole event…..might nev know. PAP is dirty.
Our President of Singapore Mr SR Nathan please spare this young man’s life if you can.The drug lord should be the old to be hanged but too bad they always get away cause they will pay someone do the dirty work.
i knew it! I knew that very few citizens would turn up, as always, based on historical evidence for the last 50 years.
wait till one of the PAP member’s family get the hang sentence and we see what they’ll do especially thecabinet guy..let them eat their shit man
Hanging should be done, If u commit a crime, face the music .. Everyone knows singapore takes a hard stance in terms of punishment for crimes and yet they want to challenge the law , how funny
“Hanging should be done, If u commit a crime, face the music .. Everyone knows singapore takes a hard stance in terms of punishment for crimes and yet they want to challenge the law , how funny”
What a load of crap. If Lee Kuan Yew’s grandson got caught selling 47 tons of heroin in Singapore, you think he would be given the death sentence?
Everyone knows that Singapore’s tough laws serve one and only one purpose: to keep the Lee family in power. Say you go to CPIB with evidence of Kwa Geok Choo’s nephew taking bribes, the next thing you know, your home is suddenly raided by the police and 47g of heroin appears out of nowhere in your toilet tank. Then a month later your mother is at Orchard Road begging pedestrians to sign a petition for your clemency.
In order to hang you for a crime you did not commit and not raise questions, they need to regularly hang small-time drug mules like Yong Vui Kong to make your hanging look like a routine thing.
@music – Singapore is run by Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and other families. CNB is also run by many other families. Within the different families there are supporters and opposition members of the gahmen. If it is so simple not to prosecute a person who had committed a crime or to hang a person who did not commit a crime, long ago such malpractices would have been exploded. Remember, there are whistle-blowers and disgruntled employees in every organisation who would not hesitate to blow it up!
@Devagi
Yeah right. There must be no disgruntled folks under Stalin or Pol Pot or Idi Amin or Kim Jong Il. Otherwise they wouldn’t have hesitated to blow the whistle on these despots.
I suppose you also believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy?
@music -I believe in people like you who dare to stand up for accountability in public instead of hiding under the cover of anonymity to make all sorts of wild allegations. The person who alleges is the person to substantiate it in public.
Devagi
9 August 2010
Wrong. Singapore has not reached the level yet where you can do it openly.
Else, you would see disatisfied people protesting & demostrating openly for causes or greivances they feel deep in their heart. Not in some sactioned place like HG where the advantage of surprise & spontaneity is lost.
Didn’t Chee & his gang try to do that & look at what happened.