 A serious international political umbrella group for advocates of cannabis law reform Working together towards cannabis pro-legislation worldwide  Singapore About Singapore - Wikipedia US State Dept: Singapore Drug Law in Singapore: Misuse of Drugs Act (download in pdf format) Singapore has a mandatory death sentence for anyone found guilty of importing, exporting or trafficking in more than 500 grams of cannabis, 200 grams of cannabis resin or more than 1,000 grams of cannabis mixture. Capital Punishment in Singapore January 15, 2004: Singapore 'tops execution league'  Darshan Singh has spoken to more than 850 condemned prisoners during his 46 years as Singapore’s chief executioner: "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you." July 8, 2010: Singapore government bans book that delves into its use of the Death Penalty April 24, 2011: Singapore’s death penalty: Opportunity for change? On December 18, 2008, Singapore voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly Text of UN Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty These are the countries that voted against the Resolution: Against(46):
Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei
Darussalam, China, Comoros, Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, Dominica, Egypt,
Grenada, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia,
Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint
Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi
Arabia, Singapore,
Solomon Islands, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria,
Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda,
United
States, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
January 19,
2011: International Harm Reduction Association
IHRA highlights Singapore’s mandatory death penalty IHRA Submission
to the UN Universal Periodic Review Eleventh
session of the UPR Working Group of the
Human Rights Council (pdf)
Death Sentences Handed Down for Cannabis in Singapore Method of
execution: hanging
Harvesting organs from death row donors When
discretion could have saved a life: the case
of Rozman bin Jusoh. Rozman was charged
with trafficking in 1040.8g of cannabis.
Under the Misuse of Drugs Act, trafficking in
more than 500g of cannabis attracts the
mandatory death penalty. PP v Rozman bin Jusoh
[1995] 3 SLR 317, [1995] 2 SLR(R) 879, CB 340
April 2002: Julia Suzanne Bohl, a 20 year old German girl was found with 687g of marijuana in her home in Singapore, 187g higher than the limit which carries the mandatory death sentence. Germany promptly intervened, and because of the politically sensitive nature of the case the charge was reduced to one of trafficking and she was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Eventually, Julia served only 2 years of her prison sentence and she was sent back to Germany. Does the State regard an Australian, Nigerian and Malaysian life as less important than that of a German's? Source and here July 20, 2004: A convicted drug trafficker who stored 2.7 kilogrammes of cannabis or marijuana in a Singapore flat was hanged in Changi Prison, news reports said on Tuesday. Raman Selvam Renganathan, 39, was sentenced to death last September 1 after an eight-day trial, according to The Straits Times. Source: SundayTribune.za, 12 May 2005: Singapore's president rejects bid to stop execution of Shanmugam Murugesu. 13 May 2005: Shanmugam Murugesu was a Tamil Singaporean executed for smuggling 1.03 kg of cannabis into Singapore from Malaysia. Source List researched, compiled and updated by Jayelle Farmer Under construction Please let
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