Tag Archives: Amnesty International

Malaysian death row inmate Michael anak Garing was executed at Changi Prison today despite pleas from the family and Amnesty International to do away with the death penalty. Is Singapore a regressed country or should it start to consider treating people's lives equally?

Amnesty International, a cross-border human rights organization, is demanding the halt of an impending execution for a convicted drug trafficker in Singapore.

Amnesty International, which campaigns for human rights, published a statement on Singapore's restrictions to this year's Pink Dot. It asked the authorities to revoke the idea of putting barricades at the Speaker's Corner and claims it is an attempt to suppress activism. "Amnesty International calls on the Singaporean authorities to respect and protect the right to peaceful assembly and ensure that they work to facilitate peaceful demonstrations instead of creating more restrictions to silence communities, or their critics." Do you also think barricades are too much?

Amendments to Singapore’s Public Order Act adopted by its parliament give police and other officials broad and arbitrary powers to further limit or ban public assemblies and protests, said Amnesty International today.

The Singapore government should end the harassment through the legal system of peaceful protesters and government critics Han Hui Hui, Ivan Koh and Janet Low, who have been convicted and fined for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression. The three activists will attend an appeal hearing on Wednesday, 22 February.

Singapore has laws and a legal system. But apparently, Amnesty does not feel that Singapore’s sovereignty rights should not be respected, and believe that their own ideals should supersede that Singaporean Laws. Which is why they openly criticised Singapore’s laws, and are reaching out to the public in attempt to put pressure on the Singaporean government. Who the hell do these bigots think they are?

31 year-old Malaysian national Kho Jabing was convicted of a heinous murder in 2010 after he viciously attacked and killed a Chinese construction worker with a tree branch in a botched robbery attempt in 2008. Kho and a co-defendant had originally been sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2010, but a review of Singapore's death penalty laws saw him resentenced to life imprisonment, which the prosecution appealed. In January this year, the High Court arrived at a narrow 3-2 decision to resentence Kho to death again.

The four-week jail sentence handed down to Singapore teenage blogger Amos Yee violates the right to freedom of expression and should be quashed, Amnesty International said today. The sentence against the 16-year-old boy was backdated to 2 June 2015 so he was able to leave court this afternoon, having already served the jail time.

The Singapore authorities must immediately and unconditionally release teenager Amos Yee, who is facing a minimum of 18 months of reformative training after criticising the late Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew online. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience, held solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression. As he is a minor, authorities must also ensure that his treatment is consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Singapore is a State party.