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Posts tagged with "death penalty"
Press Muse – Oh what a tangled Web
Jul. 23 | Spiegel - Eons ago, an Invisible Magic Friend raised some luscious, fertile trees yet thought it inappropriate to share their goodness. So he told his young ‘uns to lay off, or risk death. But seriously, who could turn down something so expressedly...
Alan Shadrake’s crime?
Jul. 19 | Choo Zheng Xi - Alan Shadrake’s book “Once a Jolly Hangman” makes for uncomfortable reading. One case in particular might have made those in power uncomfortable enough to arrest Mr Shadrake on the rarely used draconian charge of criminal defamation. A...
Straits Times – “accurate, timely and balanced”?
Jul. 14 | Andrew Loh – On 10 July 2010, the Straits Times published a report – “Law Ministry rebuts lawyer’s claim”, by Zakir Hussain. The report is essentially a regurgitation of the Law Ministry’s statement in response to earlier remarks made...
New book puts death penalty on trial
Jul. 10 | Excerpt from Alex Au’s website, Yawning Bread: To give a new twist to an old saying: Justice unevenly applied is justice denied. Alan Shadrake, in his new book, Once a Jolly Hangman — Singapore justice in the dock, shows how uneven it is. It’s...
Death row case: S’pore’s media buries its head
Jul. 7 | Andrew Loh - On 5 July, the lawyer for Malaysian Yong Vui Kong, paid a visit to Malaysia to seek help from the authorities there for his client. Yong Vui Kong is currently on death row in Singapore’s Changi Prison after having been found guilty of drug...
Death row case: Malaysian Law Minister’s puzzling about-turn
Jun. 28 | - By Andrew Loh - Malaysian Law Minister, Nazri Aziz, has made a turnaround about meeting Mr Madasamy Ravi, the lawyer for Yong Vui Kong who is on death row in Singapore. On 19 June, Malaysiakini reported that he had asked to meet with Mr Ravi about the...
Re-examine judicial & clemency process, M’sian lawyers urge S’pore
Jun. 22 | Lawyers for Liberty, a Malaysian group which is against the death penalty, has called on the Malaysian government to raise the case of Yong Vui Kong with Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who is on a one-day visit to the country. Prime Minister...
Death row case: Malaysian minister to meet Yong’s lawyer
Jun. 19 | Report by Susan Loone – Malaysiakini - Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian national currently on death row in Singapore, may finally be getting a shot at keeping his appeal alive, as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz and our Ministry...
Malaysian High Commission visits death row inmate
Jun. 18 | Andrew Loh – Representatives from the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore have visited Yong Vui Kong in prison, The Online Citizen has learned. This is the first time that Malaysian government officials have done so since Yong’s arrest in June...
Lawyer urges Malaysian government to intervene in death row case
Jun. 14 | Andrew Loh – The lawyer for Yong Vui Kong, who is on death row in Singapore, has urged the Malaysian government to intervene in the case. “The reason I have come to Malaysia,” said Mr Madasamy Ravi, “is to ask for your help in making clear to...
IHRA rebuts S’pore’s defence of harsh drug laws
Jun. 10 | On 5 June 2010, Singapore’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Mr Michael Teo, defended Singapore’s policy on the death penalty. In an article for The Guardian, a British publication, titled, “Singapore’s policy keeps drugs at bay”,...
Death sentences and executions in 2009
Mar. 30 | “We do see an end in sight to the death penalty… More people around the world are realising that this is a punishment that is against human dignity, it doesn’t achieve any purpose, and it should be consigned to history the same way...
Interview with Rev. Dr. Edward Job on Death Penalty
Mar. 4 | Rev. Dr. Edward Job, a person with over 16 years of experience in helping drug addicts, speaks his mind on the death penalty.
Kim Dae-jung: Life on Death Row
Feb. 26 | The following film, by Amnesty International (Feb, 2010), explores experiences of death row and the death penalty in South Korea during the years of political upheaval before democracy. The film contains extracts from an interview with Kim Dae-jung, former...
Do NUS law students support the mandatory death penalty?
Feb. 4 | The Online Citizen asks students from the National University of Singapore Law faculty if they support the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking.
Constitutionality more important than finality
Jan. 6 | In our view the public interest in having finality in court proceedings could not possibly outweigh the public interest in determining whether or not the mandatory death sentence was constitutional under the Constitution. Chief Justice Chan Kek Seong,...
Should China execute a mentally ill drug smuggler?
Jan. 2 | Alvin Phoon China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, boasting rich history, almost 10 million square kilometres of land and a 1.4 billion strong population, is destined to be a major power. Her impact on the world we know today cannot be...
Open letter on drug trafficker to be released
Dec. 10 | Terence Lee Kenneth Jeyaretnam spells out his party’s stance towards the death penalty. He also calls on the government to release the new electoral boundaries early. Singapore’s newest political party will be putting out an open letter calling...
M Ravi speaks on death penalty
Dec. 8 | The Singapore Democratic Party speaks to Mr M Ravi, human rights lawyer, who has been involved in defending persons on death row for more than five years now. Mr Ravi is currently representing Mr Yong Vui Kong, a 21-year old Malaysian sentenced to hang...
Vui Kong, we care – a day for compassion
Dec. 7 | Story of a boy Read it on TOC Facebook page. Vui Kong’s story from Lianain Films on Vimeo.
Calling for an end to the mandatory death penalty
Dec. 7 | Story of a boy Read it on TOC Facebook page. Let Yong Vui Kong be rehabilitated under the Yellow Ribbon Project Monday, 7 December 2009 The NOT IN OUR NAME: NO TO THE DEATH PENALTY campaign welcomes the encouraging decision by the High Court to grant...
Singapore – the darker side
Dec. 6 | The following video was created by students for the Singapore American School’s Modern Asian Perspective course.
The treason of reason
Dec. 5 | Read: Media’s silence on Yong Vui Kong a National Shame Khairulanwar Zaini Make no mistake about where the ‘cooling off’ period is coming from: a psychological gerrymandering to serve the PAP’s advantage. But that advantage goes beyond imposing...
Yong Vui Kong meets his mother in jail
Dec. 5 | Yong was allowed to see his mother through a glass panel on Wednesday. Upon seeing his mother, Yong knelt down and bow to her three times. Rachel Zeng
President rejects clemency petition for Yong Vui Kong
Nov. 27 | Andrew Loh Yong Vui Kong’s death sentence “should stand”, the Principal Private Secretary (PPS) to President Nathan said in a letter from the Istana. In a one-sentence response to the petition for clemency for Yong, which was sent to the President...
Lawyer for death-row inmate denied access to client
Nov. 19 | Andrew Loh / Rachel Zeng Despite having confirmed that inmate is represented by new lawyer, the Prison Service insists on having the Court’s permission before it allows lawyer access to his client. Malaysian Yong Vui Kong was arrested for trafficking...
World Day Against the Death Penalty 2009 – A Singapore Forum
Oct. 16 | Report by Ravi Philemon Photos by Jeremy Philemon THE Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign, commemorated the World Day Against the Death Penalty by organising a forum on 10 October 2009, and calling on the Singapore government to join 139 states throughout...
