Saridewi Djamani was executed in Singapore this morning for drug trafficking

Singapore hanged a 45-year-old woman on Friday for drug trafficking, the first to be executed in this city-state in nearly 20 years, authorities said.

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“Capital punishment imposed against Saridewi Binte Djamani took place on July 28, 2023″, the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement.

The woman was convicted of trafficking “not less than 30.72 grams” of heroin, more than double the amount that carries the death penalty in this country.

djamanisentenced in 2018, “she received a fully compliant trial and was represented by an attorney throughout the process”said this office.

“He appealed his conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal on October 6, 2022″ the statement said. His petition for presidential clemency was also rejected, he added.

djamani she is the first woman to be executed in this city-state since 2004, the office stated.

This is the fifteenth person executed since March 2022, when the government ended a two-year pause in the application of capital punishment during the covid-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday, another 57-year-old man was hanged for trafficking 50 grams of heroin.

Singapore enforces one of the strictest drug laws in the world. Trafficking in more than 500 grams of cannabis or 15 grams of heroin can carry capital punishment.

NGO of human rights as International Amnesty This week they asked the government to stop these executions, arguing that there was no evidence of their deterrent effect.

This organization claimed that Singapore, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia They are the only countries in the world to have executed prisoners for drug trafficking crimes in the last year.

The Singaporean authorities argue that capital punishment has helped make this city-state one of the safest countries in Asia.

Source: Elcomercio

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