Tag Archives: DEATH PENALTY

It's embarrassing to go to such lengths to censor youngsters' thoughts and actions. Shame on the authorities for silencing them and pretending that they let our youth have the freedom to shape our future.

The ideas are hard to accept but he's right. People are still taking drugs despite knowing the risks. It means that our approach is useless, so it must change.

They are appealing on behalf of Nagaenthran's family as they are under quarantine after travelling from Malaysia and cannot directly appeal to the President.

From April 2011, Suhail gradually increased his intake of heroin until he was taking roughly 12g to 18g of normal grade heroin a day around the time of his arrest on 3 August 2011. He described the normal grade heroin as “coklat gelap” or dark chocolate. He clarified that he did not reach this rate of consumption, which would cost an estimated $5,000 a month, overnight. In August 2011, his dependency level had got to the point where he was injecting himself every two or three hours just to delay the onset of withdrawal symptoms. When he had to work, he would smoke the heroin.

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?

The Human Rights Watch has called for Singapore to stop investigating activists who attended the vigil for Prabagaran and demanded the government to stop harassing them or denying them of freedom of speech.

Filmmaker Jason Soo is yet another person to be slapped with a travel restriction as the police are investigating him for taking part in a candlelight vigil for a death penalty inmate. "It's an example of how civil rights in this country are being gradually stripped away, inch by inch, little by little, until one day, we realize that the only rights we have left is the right to obey."

A netizen said there is no decency in going after those who attended a candlelight vigil for death penalty inmate Prabagaran. He said the law is not "dead" and wonders if Singapore's public service still has a heart. What do you think?

The Online Citizen's Terry Xu was stopped from travelling to Malaysia as the Police demanded to take his statement on his 'unlawful' assembly for a candlelight vigil. The vigil was held a few months ago in memory of Prabagaran Srivijayan, who was subjected to the death penalty.

48 year old Mohammad Rosli Abdul Rahim has been charged for allegedly killing Mohammad Roslan Zaini 2 days ago at Teck Whye Crescent. He will be remanded for a week for investigations and will appear in court on 25 Aug. He may face the death penalty if convicted of murder.