FT arrested for distributing drugs to students. Do you think PAP will hang him?

[Rogue Trader]

Suspect supplier of drugs sold to expat students nabbed
AsiaOne
Saturday, Oct 08, 2011

SINGAPORE - A man who is believed to be behind the supply of drugs to a group of expat students schooling here has been nabbed.

The 24-year-old was among 92 suspects arrested during Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) drug busts this week.

The suspected trafficker was caught at Senoko Drive with 1kg of cannibis in his backpack.

His 22-year-old girlfriend was also taken in when anti-narcotics officers raided his Yishun apartment. There, they seized items used for packing drugs such as weighing scales and plastic packets.

He is believed to be linked to Selvam V. Katorain, 37, who had allegedly peddled cannabis to a group of 15 youths, most of them foreigners. Katorain was charged with drug trafficking on Sept 8.

Five of the international students, who were arrested during CNB drug raids on Sept 6 and 7, were charged in court yesterday.

Among those arrested, the youngest of them is a 13-year-old expat student and the oldest is a 25-year-old international university student, who are friends who may have abused drugs together, reported The New Paper.

If convicted, each of the young people can be jailed up to 10 years and fined $20,000 on each drug consumption and possession charge.

Yesterday, the CNB also arrested two other suspected male drug traffickers, one 48, the other 27.

About 1kg of cannabis was found in the Mitsubishi Lancer they were in.

The 2kg of cannabis seized from the three men is estimated to be worth some $66,000. All three could face the death penalty if convicted.

In a separate four-day operation that started on Tuesday, the anti-narcotics police arrested eight suspected traffickers and 80 suspected abusers.

 

[singveld]

they are so dead. just like saudi.


Saudi beheading of eight Bangladesh workers condemned

The public execution of eight Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia has been condemned by a leading human rights group in Bangladesh, Ain O Salish Kendra.

The workers were beheaded in public in Riyadh on Friday after they were found guilty of killing an Egyptian in 2007.

Three other Bangladeshis were sentenced to prison terms and flogging in the same case.

More than two million Bangladeshis work in Saudi Arabia.

The human rights group says the execution of Bangladeshi workers should be condemned by anyone who cares for humanity.

It says that although the executions were carried out in accordance with Saudi law, the public beheading of the workers will cause immense suffering and trauma for their family members back at home.

It points out that often foreign workers don't understand Saudi court proceedings in Arabic and they rarely get lawyers to represent their case.

It has urged the Bangladeshi government to offer legal assistance to migrant workers facing trial.

The money sent home by migrant workers in Bangladesh play a crucial role in the country's economy.

Amnesty International says since the end of the holy month of Ramadan, executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an alarming rate.

The latest beheadings bring the total number of executions in the country this year to 58, more than twice the figure for the whole of 2010.

It says many of those executed in recent years have been foreign nationals, mostly migrant workers from developing countries.

It has called on the Saudi government for an immediate moratorium on executions and to commute all death sentences.

 

[Agoraphobic]

The Law is the Law.

Having said this, I hope that the authorities will review and ask themselves what good does this kind of punishment do?

It doesn't stop the "crime".

To me, it is only a crime when innocent members of society are hurt. In recreational drug use, this doesn't happen.

It anything is amiss, it is only the sale of contraband that is not taxed. Nobody was hurt.

Two wrongs don't make a right.


Singapore - if you want to be an international city, you have to end this kind of treatment. The victims are not criminals.

 

[scbccb]

This human rights group damn funny. Did the Banglas think about the well-being and human rights of the victim when they committed the crime. 幫親不幫理.

The human rights group says the execution of Bangladeshi workers should be condemned by anyone who cares for humanity.

 

[scroobal]

The death sentence is insufficient when it comes to sales to students. They should be caned first and then hanged.

 

[vamjok]

knn play till so big, big a doctor in hostel, and get his gf to be the pharmacist to packet the drug.

wah lan ay 1kg, no horse run already la.....