2023-07-28 20:06:00
The last time a woman was executed in Singapore was in 2004, when hairdresser Yen May Woe, 36, was hanged, also for trafficking (photo: Edgar Su – 25.Apr.22/Reuters) Singapore was executed this Friday. fair (28) a 45-year-old woman was sentenced to death five years ago for drug trafficking, in the first female execution case in almost two decades in the country.
Saridewi Binte Djamani, found guilty of possessing around 30 grams of heroin for trafficking purposes, was hanged, according to the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a non-governmental organization that monitors cases on death row and works to try to prevent it. new runs.
The last time a woman was executed in Singapore was in 2004, when hairdresser Yen May Woe, 36, was hanged, also for trafficking. In 1995, Portuguese citizen Angel Mou Pui-Peng, 25, born in Macau, in southern China, was killed after being convicted for the same reason.
Also according to the TJC, Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, 56, is next in line on death row. Convicted in 2018 for trafficking approximately 50 grams of heroin, he will be executed next Wednesday (2).
Singapore is one of the countries with the strictest drug laws in the world. At least 13 people have been hanged since the government resumed executions, suspended for two years due to COVID-19.
The Asian nation was the target of international criticism for the execution of prisoners convicted of drug trafficking. The government, however, claims to use the death penalty as a way to curb this type of crime and maintains that “its judicial processes are carried out smoothly”, according to a report by The Guardian newspaper.
A survey by the human rights NGO Amnesty International showed that Singapore was one of the few countries that executed people for drug-related crimes last year — China, Saudi Arabia and Iran were the other nations with confirmed cases of serving death sentences.
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