Asien/Singapur: Death penalty for drugs: Will 2022 signal sea change in ASEAN?
Asien/Singapur: Death penalty for drugs: Will 2022 signal sea change in ASEAN?
On March 30, Singapore executed Abdul Kahar bin Othman, a local man sentenced to death for drug offenses and the first person to be executed in Singapore in since 2019. Othman had been unable to appeal his execution because he did not have a lawyer. Eight of the 35 countries that still retain the death penalty for drug offenses are in Southeast Asia and were responsible for a staggering 91.5 percent of all confirmed death sentences given for drug offenses worldwide, according to the Global Review 2021 from Harm Reduction International (HRI). (The Jakarta Post, Indonesien, 05.04.2022)
https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2022/04/04/death-penalty-for-drugs-will-2022-signal-sea-change-in-asean.html.