A man was sentenced to hang for trafficking 1 kilo of marijuana that he never touched

Tangaraju Suppiah46, will be executed on Wednesday according to the prison service of Singapore for complicity in the trafficking of a kilo of marijuana. The man was sentenced to hanging for a crime of attempted drug trafficking, prior to his arrest, according to a 2018 ruling.

The prisoner was arrested in 2014 for drug use and while he was in prison he was linked, through a police investigation, with a crime of attempted drug trafficking dating back to September 2013, for which he was sentenced to death.

The death row never touched the drug

The prisoner’s relatives asked the authorities for mercy: “I know that my brother did nothing wrong, but I would like justice to review the case from the beginning,” he complains Leelasister of the prisoner, about the possible errors that were committed during the process, in an act organized by the NGO Transformative Justice Collective calling for the abolition of capital punishment.

In addition, the relatives today sent a letter to the president of the country, Halimah Jacobto reconsider and accept the leniency petition

If the death sentence proceeds, Suppiah – who pleads not guilty to the drug trafficking charge – would be the first to be executed by Singapore this year, after applying capital punishment on 11 inmates during 2022after a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

International Amnesty has condemned the decision and described it as “extremely cruel”, according to the spokesman for the regional office of the NGO. “What is especially worrying is that Tangaraju never touched the drug,” said the human rights activist Kirsten Han.

Singapore It has one of the toughest anti-drug policies in the world, placing the minimum to apply capital punishment, which is carried out by hanging, in the trafficking of 15 grams of heroin and 500 grams of marijuana.

Source-larepublica.pe

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