MHA refutes tycoon Richard Branson’s blog post on drug laws, death penalty
“Mr Branson also suggests that Singapore had breached our international commitments to protect people with disabilities by carrying out the capital punishment on Nagaenthran. This too is untrue, as Nagaenthran was not intellectually disabled.”
In the blog post, Mr Branson said that all 11 men executed in Singapore this year were “small-scale traffickers, often of Malay origin or Malaysian nationals”, and that he suspected racial bias. “However, this does not mean that lawyers can abuse the court process by filing late and patently unmeritorious applications to frustrate the carrying out of lawfully imposed sentences,” it added, citing Nagaenthran’s case where the Court of Appeal dismissed last-minute applications and described them as an abuse of the Court’s process.
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