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27/11/2009
Clemency of Yong Vui Kong Declined
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The following is a statement from the SADPC.
The President has responded to the petition for clemency of Yong Vui Kong sent in by the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) through his Principal Private Secretary Mr Tan Eng Beng.
“I am directed to refer to the petition for clemency of Yong Vui Kong and to inform you that the President, after due consideration of the petition and on the advice of the Cabinet, has decided that the sentence of death should stand.”
According to the date stated on the letter, the statement was issued on 20 November 2009. M Ravi, lawyer for Yong and co-campaigner of the SADPC, received the letter on 26 November 2009.
Yong has also signed a document agreeing to donate his organs.
Although no date has been fixed yet, he is expected to hang the week after next.
M Ravi has been allowed to talk to his client and will do so in the week to come. Further legal action to save Yong in this short amount of time, is being planned. Let’s all hope for the best.
Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign
singaporeantideathpenalty@gmail.com
12:19 Posted by soci | Permalink | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) | Email this | Tags: yong vui kong, death penalty, singapore
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Prohibition + mandatory sentencing + one-party state == state perpetrated legalized murder which spares no one, not even the youth.
What a barbarous country!
Shame on you.
Posted by: Matilah_Singapura | 01/12/2009
Matilah_Singapura, if u spare tis guy. Watz next? I bet there will b more n tons of Vui Kong transporting drugs into spore.
Why? Becoz no death sentence!!!
Posted by: Majulah_Singapura | 03/12/2009