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Singapore to execute woman on drugs charge July 28
    #28409697 - 07/26/23 11:41 PM (9 months, 18 days ago)

Singapore to execute first woman on drugs charge for the first time in 20 years
July 27, 2023 - BBC

Singapore is scheduled to execute a woman for the first time in almost 20 years, human rights advocates say.

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was found guilty of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018.

She will be the second drug convict to be executed in three days, after fellow Singaporean Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, and the 15th since March 2022.

Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws, which it says are necessary to protect society.

Aziz was convicted of trafficking 50g of heroin. Singapore mandates the death penalty for trafficking of more than 15g of heroin and more than 500g of cannabis.

Last April, another Singaporean, Tangaraju Suppiah, was executed for trafficking 1kg (35oz) of cannabis that he never touched. Authorities say he co-ordinated the sale via mobile phone.

Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) declined to comment on Djamani's case when contacted by the BBC.

In an earlier statement, the CNB said Aziz was accorded "full due process", and that his appeal against his conviction and sentence was dismissed in 2018.

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has again criticised Singapore for its executions, saying the death penalty is not a deterrent against crime.

"Small-scale drug traffickers need help, as most are bullied due to their circumstances," Mr Branson said on Twitter.

It is not too late to stop Saridewi's execution, he said.

Saridewi is one of two women on death row in Singapore, according to the Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore-based human rights group.

She will be the first woman executed by the city-state since hairdresser Yen May Woen in 2004, the group said. Yen was also convicted of drug trafficking.

Local has media reported that Saridewi testified during her trial that she was stocking up on heroin for personal use during the Islamic fasting month.

While she did not deny selling drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine from her flat, she downplayed the scale of those activities, noted judge See Kee Oon.

Authorities argue that strict drug laws help keep Singapore as one of the safest places in the world and that capital punishment for drug offences enjoys wide public support.

But anti-death penalty advocates refute this.

"There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs," said Amnesty International's Chiara Sangiorgio in a statement.

"The only message that these executions send is that the government of Singapore is willing to once again defy international safeguards on the use of the death penalty," she said.

Amnesty International noted that alongside China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Singapore is one of only four countries to have recently carried out drug-related executions.

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Re: Singapore to execute woman on drugs charge July 28 [Re: veggie] * 1
    #28410005 - 07/27/23 08:09 AM (9 months, 18 days ago)

Quote:

one of the safest places in the world




Adjust the crime rate to account for democide.

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Re: Singapore to execute woman on drugs charge July 28 [Re: veggie]
    #28411156 - 07/28/23 01:54 AM (9 months, 17 days ago)

The Central Narcotics Bureau confirmed that execution had been carried out as scheduled
https://www.cnb.gov.sg/NewsAndEvents/News/Index/statement-in-response-to-media-queries-28Jul2023

Quote:

28 Jul 2023

1. The capital sentence of death imposed on Saridewi Binte Djamani was carried out on 28 July 2023.

2. Saridewi, a 45-year-old Singaporean, was convicted of having in her possession for the purpose of trafficking, not less than 30.72 grammes of diamorphine, or pure heroin (i.e. six packets and seven straws of gross weight not less than 1,084.37 grammes).

3. The Misuse of Drugs Act provides for the death penalty if the amount of diamorphine trafficked is more than 15 grammes. 30.72 grammes of diamorphine is more than twice that amount, and is sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.

4. Saridewi was accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process:

    a. Saridewi was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment on 6 July 2018.

    b. She appealed against her conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal on 6 October 2022.

5. Saridewi’s petition to the President for clemency was unsuccessful.

6. Capital punishment is used only for the most serious crimes, such as the trafficking of significant quantities of drugs which cause very serious harm, not just to individual drug abusers, but also to their families and the wider society. Capital punishment is part of Singapore’s comprehensive harm prevention strategy which targets both drug demand and supply.


Central Narcotics Bureau
28 July 2023




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