Singapore is set to execute two prisoners by hanging this week. One of them was the first female prisoner to be executed in nearly 20 years, while human rights groups called for an end to executions.
Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a Singapore-based rights advocacy group, said today that a 56-year-old man convicted of trafficking 50 pounds of heroin Gram will be hanged on Wednesday at Changi Prison, while a 45-year-old woman, named by TJC as Saridewi Dajamani, will be sent to the execution site on Friday. She was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking approximately 30 grams of heroin if the execution was scheduled. She will be the first woman executed in Singapore since 2004, when 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Wen was hanged for drug trafficking, TJC said. that both prisoners are Singaporeans and their families have been informed about the date for their execution.
Source: Thai News Agency