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      Local and International groups express solidarity for the families of executed prisoners in Singapore

      Article by Think Centre published on November 26th, 2016

      We, the undersigned organisations, condemn the shameful execution of a Nigerian national, Chijioke Stephen Obioha, and a Malaysian national, Devendran a/l Supramaniam in Singapore on 18 November 2016, which runs counter to global trends towards abolition of capital punishment. Around the same time, at the 50th and 51st meeting of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee’s 71st session proceedings, the Singapore representative introduced amendments, undermining the spirit of the draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, supported by states such as Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh.

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    • We remain appalled that Singapore continues to execute people in contravention of international law and standards. The two men were sentenced to mandatory death penalty, after being convicted of drug trafficking, which does not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes”.

      In July 2011, during its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Singapore accepted a recommendation that called on the government to make available statistics and other factual information on the use of the death penalty (A/HRC/18/11, para. 95.15). The lack of transparency in relation to the scheduled executions therefore remains deeply concerning and prevents informed and meaningful debates in the country on the retention of this punishment.

      We would like to express our regret and share in the disappointment of the families of the executed men. We oppose the use of capital punishment in all circumstances, as a violation of human rights which can never be justified under the flawed assumption that it has a unique deterrent effect.

      Signatories:
      Singapore
      Function 8
      Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME)
      Project X
      Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC)
      Think Centre
      We Believe in Second Chances

      Malaysia
      Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
      Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture (MADPET)
      Indonesia
      Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)

      International Groups and Networks
      Amnesty International (AI)
      Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
      Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN)
      Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA)
      Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM)
      Franciscans International (FI)
      Human Rights Watch (HRW)
      International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
      International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
      World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP)
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