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Japan | Hakamada found religion, but then felt under attack by ‘the devil’

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Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo Detention House on Dec. 24, 1984. “Since I have been given the Christian name Paul, I am keenly feeling that I should be aware of the greatness of Paul.” (June 1985)

Singapore | Anti-death penalty activist files application to seek declaration that police abused its powers in investigation

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An application has been filed in the Singapore court by an anti-death penalty activist to seek, among other things, a declaration that the police had abused its powers in investigating him for participating in a purported ‘illegal procession’.

Rocky Howe, a member of the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) filed the application on 23 September over the police investigations that he and fellow TJC member, and independent journalist Kirsten Han were subjected to on 24 June this year.

The police sought their presence at the Bedok Police Station for allegedly participating in 2 ‘illegal assemblies’ outside Changi Prison earlier this year: once when they sat there with a few others the night before the execution of Abdul Kahar bin Othman, and another time when they took photos with the sign “END OPPRESSION, NOT LIFE”’ two nights before Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was hanged.

Both Howe and Han went to the police station wearing T-shirts bearing anti-death penalty slogans.

During the interrogation, police officers took issue with the T-shirts that they were wearing. Specifically, the police officers claimed that by walking from the nearby market to the police station in those T-shirts, they had participated in an ‘illegal procession’.

The T-shirts that they were wearing were then confiscated on the spot. Teo Soh Lung, their friend and fellow activist, who was at the waiting area of the police station had to hastily purchase other T-shirts for them to wear instead.

On top of seizing their mobile phones, the police also asked Han for her social media passwords, which she refused to give them. Han said when she refused, she was warned that Section 39 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) “might come into play”.

Under Section 39 of the CPC, police officers have the power to access, inspect and check the operation of a “computer” used in connection with an arrestable offence.

Following the social media posts published by Teo and Han made about the interrogations on the same day, the local media approached the Police for comments.

Source: theonlinecitizen.com, Staff, October 19, 2022





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