Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam waives parliamentary immunity for the ministerial statement.
Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam touched on Singapore’s drug control policies in a wide-ranging speech in Parliament on May 8.
Mr Shanmugam, it added, now waives parliamentary immunity for everything said in the ministerial statement. She also claimed that Mr Shanmugam had “attacked various Singaporeans and organisations”, and had deliberately singled out a group of activists and accused them of misleading the public.against 10 social media posts and two online articles for containing false statements about a capital sentence meted out by the courts.
Former drug abusers, it added, were invited to celebrate their courage and resilience in their rehabilitation journey, and they were moved by the tribute given to them in Parliament. Many of them are now helping other drug abusers give up drugs.The families of the former drug abusers were also invited to recognise the critical role that they played in helping their loved ones turn over a new leaf, and all of them were aware that the media was at the event, the statement said.
MHA added that the ministerial statement on Singapore’s national drug control policy cited countries that have adopted soft drug control policies and have seen horrific consequences, such as increased overdose rates and brutal drug-related crime and violence. “The courts have said on multiple occasions that many court applications filed by or on behalf of capital prisoners, often at the last minute, were unmeritorious or amounted to an abuse of the court’s processes.In one case, MHA said, the court found an application to be “nothing more than a blatant and impermissible attempt” to obstruct the carrying out of the sentence.
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