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    29/10/2009

    SINGAPORE: Death Penalty/ Imminent Execution

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    SINGAPORE: Death Penalty/ Imminent Execution

    Yong Vui Kong, a 21-year-old Malaysian, whose court appeals have now failed, faces execution unless Singapore's President grants him clemency -- a very rare occurrence in Singapore, which has one of the highest per capita execution rates in the world.
    With a difficult family background and circumstances seen to make him vulnerable, Yong Vui Kong became involved in drug trafficking. He was 19 when arrested in June 2008, and in November 2008 was found guilty of drug trafficking . An official court document in January 2009 stated that he was sentenced to death. His lawyer, M Ravi, recently organized a public forum focussing on Yong Vui Kong for Singapore's contribution to the World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10). M Ravi has long campaigned in Singapore and abroad against executions and now leads a small but growing group of campaigners against the death penalty, which is slowly breaking into the silence of most Singaporeans and Singapore media.

    BACKGROUND INFORMATION

    As the world moves closer towards abolition of the death penalty, Singapore remains among the diminishing number of retentionist countries. With a population of about five million, Singapore has executed at least 420 people since 1991. In defiance of the global trend, Singapore voted against a United Nations 2008 resolution calling for a moratorium on executions as a step towards abolition. Singapore continues to claim it is a deterrent and not a human rights matter. In November 2005 The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions noted that legal safeguards do not meet international standards. For example, the mandatory death sentence, following the presumption of guilt in drug trafficking cases, removes discretionary sentencing powers from the court. Singapore's Law Society has begun to make rare recommendations to re-examine the use of the death penalty.

    AI recognizes the need of governments to address serious crimes, including drug trafficking, but notes there is no clear evidence to show the death penalty deters crime any more effectively than other forms of punishment.

    TAKE ACTION

    Please send a personally-worded appeal:

    -- urge the President to commute the death sentence of Yong Vui Kong;
    -- state that a moratorium on executions would be welcomed as a historic step forward for Singapore;
    -- note that, because of the presumption of guilt in drug trafficking cases and the mandatory death sentence under Singapore law, the court did not have discretionary powers to take all circumstances into consideration in Wong Vui Kong's case;
    -- urge that resources be switched to work against violent crime and assist those affected by it.

    TO:

    His Excellency S R Nathan
    Office of the President
    Istana, Orchard Road
    Singapore 0922
    Fax: 011 656 735 3135
    Email: s_r_nathan@istana.gov.sg
    Salutation: Your Excellency

    COPIES TO:

    Mr Koh Yong Guan
    High Commissioner to Canada
    c/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Tanglin
    Singapore 248163
    Fax: 011 65 6474 7885
    Salutation: Your Excellency

     

    10:33 Posted by soci | Permalink | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Email this | Tags: death penalty, execution, yong vui kong

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    to the government of Singapore, remember, your bloody hands will never be forgotten. Those souls of lives you have taken will scream for justice in the front of God. Tong Ching man, Poon Yuen chung, David, and all inoccent person like them...Damn you all. God will punish you for taking young souls of them just to protect your cheap treasure. And for David (Student from Indonesia), his parents tears had come in the front of Father in Heaven. I had seen his father crying in the national tv. I hope they always be strong. I will pray for them. How long you all gonna live? 10, 20, 30 or 50 years from now? soon or late, you will face justice from the Almighty. Keep eating, sucking and fat you all burning souls. Don't try to get mercy at your end, just like you when you ended their lives. It's useless. No MERCY and FORGIVING for YOU ALL.
    PS.
    To The Other Who read this, see and read also about David murder,
    how Singapore government murder this brilliant student just to take
    inventiveness from his research. They said he was suicide. but the autopsy report really much tell different story. They take his laptop and refused to return when his parents asked for it. They lie and cheat in the court.

    Posted by: chris | 05/01/2010

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