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664778
Fri, 07/28/2023 - 10:10
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BERNAMA
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Singapore Executes Saridewi Djamani For Drug Offence 

By Massita Ahmad

 

SINGAPORE, July 28 (Bernama) -- The capital punishment imposed on Saridewi Djamani was carried out early Friday (July 28), making her the second woman to be executed for a drug offence in Singapore in almost two decades.

 

Saridewi’s fate had received a lot of foreign media attention and outcry from human rights group who viewed the republic’s capital punishment as harsh and inhumane.

 

The 45-year-old Singaporean is also the second person to be executed this week after the 56-year old Mohd Aziz Hussain met the same fate on Wednesday, also for a drug offence.  

 

The Central Narcotics Bureau of Singapore (CNB) issued a statement on Friday in response to media queries saying Saridewi was accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process.

 

“Saridewi was convicted and sentenced to capital punishment on July 6, 2018. She appealed against her conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal on Oct 6, 2022.

 

“Saridewi’s petition to the President for clemency was unsuccessful,” said the bureau.

 

-- BERNAMA

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