The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for, drug-related offences in 2016. He maintains his innocence of the crime.
The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for, drug-related offences in 2016. He maintains his innocence of the crime. 1) TAKE ACTION Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:- Asking the authorities of Singapore to immediately halt plans to carry out the execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd and any other prisoner;
- Expressing your distress at the continued use in Singapore of the death penalty for drug-related offences and resort to the mandatory death penalty, which violate both international law and standards;
- Urging them to establish an official moratorium on executions and commute all death sentences, as first steps towards abolition of the death penalty.
Contact these two officials by 24 April, 2018:
President of Singapore Her Excellency Halimah Yacob Office of the President of the Republic of Singapore Orchard Road, Singapore 238823 Fax: +65 6735 3135 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @govsingapore Salutation: Your Excellency
Ambassador HE Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Embassy of Singapore 3501 International Place NW, Washington DC 20008 Phone: 1 202 537 3100 I Fax: 1 202 537 0876 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @MirpuriAshok Salutation: Dear Ambassador
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