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"Save Nagaenthran”: Advocates Call for Death Sentence Pardon in Singapore
Manage episode 306695899 series 2418148
In defiance of its own laws and the UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Singapore government intends to hang a man with borderline intellectual functioning for smuggling 42.72 grams of diamorphine—a form of heroin used to treat severe pain. PJ Thum speaks to Emmy Charissa, a disability rights activist; Kokila Annamalai, an anti-death penalty activist; and Mila Rockey, sister of death row prisoner Syed Suhail and also an anti-death penalty activist, about Mr Nagaenthran’s case, the lack of a fair trial that accommodated his disabilities, and drug trafficking and the death penalty in Singapore.
Things you can do to help #SaveNagaenthran:
- Sign this petition
- Write to President Halimah Yacob
- Write to your local MPs
- Support the Transformative Justice Collective
92 Episoden
Manage episode 306695899 series 2418148
In defiance of its own laws and the UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Singapore government intends to hang a man with borderline intellectual functioning for smuggling 42.72 grams of diamorphine—a form of heroin used to treat severe pain. PJ Thum speaks to Emmy Charissa, a disability rights activist; Kokila Annamalai, an anti-death penalty activist; and Mila Rockey, sister of death row prisoner Syed Suhail and also an anti-death penalty activist, about Mr Nagaenthran’s case, the lack of a fair trial that accommodated his disabilities, and drug trafficking and the death penalty in Singapore.
Things you can do to help #SaveNagaenthran:
- Sign this petition
- Write to President Halimah Yacob
- Write to your local MPs
- Support the Transformative Justice Collective
92 Episoden
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