HEADLINE Human’s Right | We need to keep the heat on Singapore over death penalty
Drug deaths: Placards and LED lights are displayed on April 25, 2022 at Speakers Corner in Singapore during a public vigil for Malaysian national Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, who was executed two days later for trafficking heroin into the island state. Singapore has hanged five convicted drug traffickers since March.(AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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The summer saw a spike in capital executions in Singapore, including the first woman after two decades. My thinking, so far, is that we should try to come up with a strategy and tactics for how to change the equation about the issue in the city-state.
To better understand the intricacies of the issue, I corresponded with Chiara Sangiorgio, Amnesty International’s death penalty expert. In our interaction, I tried to capture the nuances of the ongoing effort to counter the official narrative, which often sounds more like propaganda Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has been pushing over the years.
Memento Maxima Digital MarketingThe party has been spinning the narrative over deterrence and overall public opinion that supports the harshest and most cruel of punishment.
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Simone Galimberti
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