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Singapore executes 5th prisoner this year for drug trafficking

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This comes less than a week after Singapore executed the first woman in nearly 20 years.

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Shalleh Adul Latiff is the 16th prisoner sent to the gallows since the government resumed executions in March 2022. (Pixabay pic)

SINGAPORE:
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state’s fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on Thursday.

Shalleh Adul Latiff was sentenced to death for possessing around 55g of heroin “for the purpose of trafficking” in 2019.

His punishment was carried out on Thursday, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a statement.

According to court documents, Shalleh worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. During his trial, he claimed to have believed he was delivering contraband cigarettes for a friend to whom he owed money.

He became the 16th prisoner sent to the gallows since the government resumed executions in March 2022 after a two-year pause during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The execution comes less than a week after Singapore executed the first woman in nearly 20 years for drug trafficking despite condemnation from rights groups.

Saridewi Djamani, a 45-year-old Singaporean, was executed on Friday for trafficking around 30g of heroin.

A local man, Aziz Hussain, 57, had been hanged two days earlier for trafficking about 50g of heroin.

The UN last week denounced the hangings and called for Singapore to impose a moratorium on the death penalty.

Despite growing international pressure on the issue, Singapore insists that the death penalty is an effective deterrent against drug trafficking.

The wealthy financial centre has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws – trafficking more than 500g of cannabis or over 15g of heroin can result in the death penalty.

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