PAP to execute malay rights activist

[syed putra]

Singapore to execute ethnic Malay man involved in racial bias suit​

Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff is the second to be executed this year after Tangaraju Suppiah, whose plight attracted international concern.
Our Regional Correspondent
May 16, 2023 11:00 PM2 minute read

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A casket van enters Singapore's Changi Prison in this file photo. The Singapore government has often cited its tough laws including its death penalty as a deterrent against drug crimes. Photo: AFP
Singapore has scheduled another execution of a man convicted of possession of cannabis, some three weeks after hanging Tangaraju Suppiah for a similar offence despite international protest.
Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff, 36, was one of 17 ethnic Malay death row inmates involved in a historic suit accusing the Singapore state of racial bias in its prosecution of capital punishment cases.
The suit was thrown out last year with prominent rights lawyer M Ravi, who represented the prisoners, being slapped with heavy fines after being accused of abuse of process by the attorney-general.
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"This is yet another instance of the death penalty being disproportionately applied against the minorities who form a disadvantaged segment of the society, which was recently highlighted by the United Nations in condemning the execution of Tangaraju," said Ravi.
It is understood that Faizal, who was arrested in 2016 with possession of 1.6kg of cannabis, will be executed in the wee hours of May 17, according to practice.
Earlier today, a court of apeal judge threw out an application for his case to be reviewed.
"It is very concerning that 64.9% of the death row inmates are of Malay ethnicity," added Ravi, whose criticism of Singapore's prosecution of drug offenders facing the death penalty resulted in him being suspended for five years.
Ethnic Malays represent just over 13% of the island's population.
"There is even considerable disparity between the percentage of Malays sentenced to death for drug offences, and the percentage of Malays in prison for all offences (about 55%) or the percentage of Malays arrested for drug consumption (49.3%)," he added.
Ravi also repeated his call for a review of Singapore's drug laws, including a study of the disproportionate percentage of ethnic Malays on death row.
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"Until such time, all executions must be put on hold," he said.
Last year, two of the 17 plaintiffs in the suit were executed, including Nazeri Lajim, a 64-year-old Singaporean who had been addicted to drugs since the age of 14, and who maintained that the drugs he was caught with were for his personal consumption.
Last month, the Singapore government was heavily criticised over the execution of 46-year old Tangaraju, who was convicted in 2017 of "abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic" 1,017.9g of cannabis.
The case drew attention from the United Nations, rights groups as well as British aviation tycoon Richard Branson, who has frequently criticised Singapore's death penalty for drug trafficking and highlighted how the drug lords who hire mules f^rom poor families have largely escaped punishment.
Critics have spoken of a climate of fear within Singapore's legal fraternity about representing death row inmates, after several vocal lawyers including Ravi were penalised or lost their licence to practise for taking up late-stage death row cases.
The PAP-led Singapore government, which has ruled the republic since its exit from Malaysia, has rejected criticism of its death penalty, saying it has been effective in controlling the drug menace.
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[Willamshakespear]

Dear Mr Syed Putra,

Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff had been served JUSTICE for being a DRUG trafficker, with PROVEN EVIDENCES. He is NOT some social Rights activist, so DO NOT besmirch TRUE upright social rights advocates whom had fought for Human Rights & Humanity's survival.

What Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff & his kind had done is the opposite - to DESTROY the precious mind & brain cells of Humankind for his OWN PERSONAL GAIN, causing many whom may had only been momentarily mental weak, succumbed to such destructive drugs, became addicted causing harm not only to themselves, but even to their loved ones & friends, which WE in Singapore as a multi-racial society sworn by our National Pledge, to help them recuperate & rehabilitate, no matter the costs to our Treasury, to leave no one behind.

As to why there is disproportionate amount of Malays in the Malay ethnic group, based upon our Multi-cultural nation, being involved in the drug trade or consuming drugs, perhaps the Malay COMMUNITY will have to seek in their hearts, to find out WHY, & find solutions to overcome it, just as our nation's other ethnic groups had done.

A) Is it due to poverty? Unproven as there ARE rich Malays thru honest hardwork & highly educated Malays in Singapore. Furthermore, had not the Malays in Singapore been given SPECIAL privileges in Education & more to rise, compared to other ethnic groups in our Multi-cultural nation are NOT given?

B) Had any Malay been denied of job opportunities in our Country that offers such to all based upon proven ability to work hard & merit - which are education qualifications of which the Malays enjoy since primary one to tertiary levels that other ethnic do not have?

C) Or is it due to religion, my apologies if I had offended anyone, where EVERY issue, even minor issues, is 'Inshah Allah' ( up to the Almighty) so long as the FORM is presented to ALL to fool them, is practiced daily, 5 times a day, but one's heart to the TRUE teachings of Islam - a religion of Peace - remains selfishly barbaric stone cold, to justify all personal actions when the teachings are that Allah will only help those whom are willing to help & elevate themselves & others in the name of Islam?

Mr Syed Putra, my respects to you, as I deem you an intelligent man by several of your non-racists posts. However, should you have CREDIBLE EVIDENCES of other ethnic groups, including your own, whom had & are indulging in the drug trade, DO keep SPF informed. You will be assured of confidentiality.

So far as I know, SPF had been actively involved in monitoring & stamping out the drug trade in Singapore, especially in nightspots & had NEVER wavered to arrest ANYONE regardless of any ethnic group in such trade. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for our neighbors in KL & Bangkok, where I sadly had to experience on seeing drugs in ALL kinds of colors being sold openly to kids in entertainment outlets like a mobile candy store, moving from one table to another...

 

[JohnTan]

Singapore to execute ethnic Malay man involved in racial bias suit​

Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff is the second to be executed this year after Tangaraju Suppiah, whose plight attracted international concern.
Our Regional Correspondent
May 16, 2023 11:00 PM2 minute read

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A casket van enters Singapore's Changi Prison in this file photo. The Singapore government has often cited its tough laws including its death penalty as a deterrent against drug crimes. Photo: AFP
Singapore has scheduled another execution of a man convicted of possession of cannabis, some three weeks after hanging Tangaraju Suppiah for a similar offence despite international protest.
Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff, 36, was one of 17 ethnic Malay death row inmates involved in a historic suit accusing the Singapore state of racial bias in its prosecution of capital punishment cases.
The suit was thrown out last year with prominent rights lawyer M Ravi, who represented the prisoners, being slapped with heavy fines after being accused of abuse of process by the attorney-general.
- Advertisement -

"This is yet another instance of the death penalty being disproportionately applied against the minorities who form a disadvantaged segment of the society, which was recently highlighted by the United Nations in condemning the execution of Tangaraju," said Ravi.
It is understood that Faizal, who was arrested in 2016 with possession of 1.6kg of cannabis, will be executed in the wee hours of May 17, according to practice.
Earlier today, a court of apeal judge threw out an application for his case to be reviewed.
"It is very concerning that 64.9% of the death row inmates are of Malay ethnicity," added Ravi, whose criticism of Singapore's prosecution of drug offenders facing the death penalty resulted in him being suspended for five years.
Ethnic Malays represent just over 13% of the island's population.
"There is even considerable disparity between the percentage of Malays sentenced to death for drug offences, and the percentage of Malays in prison for all offences (about 55%) or the percentage of Malays arrested for drug consumption (49.3%)," he added.
Ravi also repeated his call for a review of Singapore's drug laws, including a study of the disproportionate percentage of ethnic Malays on death row.
- Advertisement -

"Until such time, all executions must be put on hold," he said.
Last year, two of the 17 plaintiffs in the suit were executed, including Nazeri Lajim, a 64-year-old Singaporean who had been addicted to drugs since the age of 14, and who maintained that the drugs he was caught with were for his personal consumption.
Last month, the Singapore government was heavily criticised over the execution of 46-year old Tangaraju, who was convicted in 2017 of "abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic" 1,017.9g of cannabis.
The case drew attention from the United Nations, rights groups as well as British aviation tycoon Richard Branson, who has frequently criticised Singapore's death penalty for drug trafficking and highlighted how the drug lords who hire mules f^rom poor families have largely escaped punishment.
Critics have spoken of a climate of fear within Singapore's legal fraternity about representing death row inmates, after several vocal lawyers including Ravi were penalised or lost their licence to practise for taking up late-stage death row cases.
The PAP-led Singapore government, which has ruled the republic since its exit from Malaysia, has rejected criticism of its death penalty, saying it has been effective in controlling the drug menace.
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I hope that silly muud shit his pants today when he was strangled to death in prison.

 

[syed putra]

How would i know! I don't even smoke.

So far as I know, SPF had been actively involved in monitoring & stamping out the drug trade in Singapore, especially in nightspots & had NEVER wavered to arrest ANYONE regardless of any ethnic group in such trade.

You really think so? Huge demand from party goers for something more than just drinks. If they can sell drugs to malays, they can sell yo " atas" people too. But at a bigger margin.