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 Singapore executes drug smugglers 
#6498265 - 01/26/07 03:08 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Singapore executes drug smugglers
January 26, 2007 - BBC
Singapore has executed two African men for drug smuggling after rejecting appeals for clemency by Nigeria's president, the UN and rights groups.
Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, of Nigeria, and 35-year-old Okeke Nelson Malachy, a stateless African, were hanged at dawn.
A small group of activists held an overnight vigil outside the prison.
Singapore has some of the strictest drugs laws in the world and a long history of ignoring pleas for clemency from foreign governments.
Tochi was arrested at the airport in Singapore in 2004, carrying almost a million dollars worth of heroin.
Malachy was convicted as the intended recipient of the drugs.
'Duty'
Both men were hanged at around 0600 (200GMT) at Changi Prison, officials said.
About 10 activists held an overnight vigil outside the prison compound, hanging a football shirt on the wall as a mark of Tochi's love of the game.
He maintained he had gone to Singapore to take part in a football tournament.
On the eve of their execution, the Singapore government released a letter Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had sent to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo.
"Mr Tochi's family will find Singapore's position difficult to accept, but we have a duty to safeguard the interests of Singaporeans, and protect the many lives that would otherwise be ruined by the drug syndicates," he wrote.
Mr Obasanjo, along with the UN and human rights groups, had appealed for restraint.
Singapore is believed to have one of the world's highest rates of execution per capita, the BBC's Andrew Harding reports from the tiny city state.
Just over a year ago, the Australian government angrily condemned the hanging of one of its citizens convicted on drug trafficking charges.
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: veggie]
#6498270 - 01/26/07 03:17 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fucked up, wasent there a movie about this, where a nigga gets caught with weed in singapore, and is tourtured/killed?
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: veggie]
#6498314 - 01/26/07 04:56 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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> Singapore is believed to have one of the world's highest rates of execution per capita
Right behind the USA...
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: Seuss]
#6498405 - 01/26/07 07:08 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Seuss said:
> Singapore is believed to have one of the world's highest rates of execution per capita
Right behind the USA...
We condemn nations that mirror us, yet we call them terrorists, and relgious extremeists. So what does that make us?
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: veggie]
#6498521 - 01/26/07 08:24 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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They do have some obscene laws in Singapore. Awesome place to visit, just don't bring any weed.....
Too bad those guys wern't from a country like Canada or the USA, they probably could have got off much easier.
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: barfightlard]
#6498533 - 01/26/07 08:31 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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barfightlard said:
They do have some obscene laws in Singapore. Awesome place to visit, just don't bring any weed.....
Too bad those guys wern't from a country like Canada or the USA, they probably could have got off much easier.
1) Singapore is a beautiful place, and id love to travel there sometime. I have friends from that region of the globe. That being said, I know their laws and I am not about to challenge them...anyone that does from a foreign land is an idiot...they have proven time and time again that they are not kidding.
2) Nope, an american would get hung just like anyone else. Remember the Austrailian girl they hung that many feared would to war because of the stir it caused in Austrailia?
Singapore doesnt care. I think its a huge rights violation, but atleast they dont pretend they are a free country.
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: dedjam]
#6498546 - 01/26/07 08:40 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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I was there and in Malaysia for 2 weeks a few years ago and is is absolutely amazing. Most beautiful place I have ever set foot.
I never heard about the Australian girl. What happened?
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: barfightlard]
#6498559 - 01/26/07 08:50 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: Seuss]
#6498566 - 01/26/07 08:55 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said:
> I never heard about the Australian girl. What happened?
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3333096/
O wow, so they ended up not haning her? I mean, prison in singapore might make you wish for death anyways, but I didnt realize they even let her live. That is one FUCKED UP case though, a little different than what happened here.
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: dedjam]
#6498618 - 01/26/07 09:24 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
gopenguins said:
Quote:
Seuss said:
> Singapore is believed to have one of the world's highest rates of execution per capita
Right behind the USA...
We condemn nations that mirror us, yet we call them terrorists, and relgious extremeists. So what does that make us?
The best country on the planet! America, fuck yeah!
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: Boom]
#6498658 - 01/26/07 09:45 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some one should just level Singapore out.. that place blows anywayz
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Re: Singapore executes drug smugglers [Re: Seuss]
#6498732 - 01/26/07 10:26 AM (17 years, 2 months ago) |
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That Australian girl had trouble in Indonesia not Singapore.
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