Drug trafficking into Singapore, which has some of the world’s toughest drugs laws, has risen recently, the law minister said on Wednesday, and he defended capital punishment for serious drug crime as reflecting public support.
Rights group Lawyers for Liberty warned of an “execution binge” after it said a number of prisoners on death row in Singapore had their requests for presidential pardons rejected this month.
“We have seen an increase in the number of people coming in from countries trying to traffic,” Minister of Law K Shanmugam told Reuters.
He did not elaborate on what type of illegal drugs were being smuggled in.
The wealthy city-state has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drugs and imposes long jail terms on convicted users.
It has hanged hundreds of people - including dozens of foreigners - for narcotics offences over past decades, rights groups say.
Source: Reuters, Staff, July 31, 2019
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