Punjab-origin Kalwant Singh from Malaysia is the second Indian-origin man to be hanged - in the past three months - by Singapore for a drug-related offence
Singapore on Thursday morning executed two convicted drug traffickers, including Kalwant Singh, a 32-year-old Malaysian man of Punjabi origin who had been found guilty of bringing heroin into the city-state in 2016. The other man to be hanged was Singaporean Norasharee Gous, 48.
Kalwant Singh is the second Indian-origin Malaysian to be hanged by Singapore authorities in the past three months; in April Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, was executed for drug trafficking. So far this year Singapore has hanged four people despite calls to abolish the death penalty.
"Singapore has once again executed people convicted of drug-related offenses in violation of international law, callously disregarding public outcry," Emerlynne Gill, Amnesty International's deputy regional director for research, was quoted by the Associated Press.
"The death penalty is never the solution and we oppose it unconditionally. There is no evidence that it acts as a unique deterrent to crime," Gill said in a statement.
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