Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death in 2018 for conspiring to smuggle 1kg of cannabis. Singapore has some of the world's toughest laws against the use and sale of narcotics. Rights groups have been mounting pressure on Singapore to abolish capital punishment.


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South Asia News: KUALA LUMPUR: A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state, in a resumption.

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A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state. It would mark a resumption of executions after a half-year

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A man is expected to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle 1 kilo of cannabis, which is ‘outrageous’, activists point out.

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Singapore to hang man for drug smuggling, in first execution in 6 months

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state, in a resumption of executions after a half-year pause, activists said Thursday.

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SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for conspiring to smuggle a kilogram of cannabis, rights groups said, in the city-state's first execution in six months.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state, in a resumption of executions after a half-year pause, activists said Thursday. The family of Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was notified in a letter that he would be executed next Wednesday, anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai said. Tangaraju was detained in 2014 for drug consumption and failure…

Singapore plans to execute man over 1kg of cannabis

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