The European Union Delegation to Singapore issued a statement on Thursday (19 May 2016) in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission and the Embassy of Switzerland: The European Union (EU) and Switzerland call on the Singapore Cabinet to grant clemency to 32-year-old Malaysian Kho Jabing. Apart from the call for clemency to be granted, the EU, its Member States and Switzerland also …

Two United Nations human rights experts on summary executions and on torture today urged the Government of Singapore not to carry out the execution of Mr. Kho Jabing, scheduled for 20 May. The 31-year-old Malaysian national was sentenced to death in 2010 after being found guilty of unintentional murder. At the time the sentence was issued, Singaporean legislation imposed the …

By International Federation for Human Rights Singaporean President Tony Tan must grant clemency to Malaysian national Kho Jabing and commute his death sentence to life imprisonment, FIDH said today. Kho Jabing’s execution, by hanging, is scheduled to take place on 20 May 2016. “We renew our call on Singapore’s President to halt the execution of Kho Jabing. It is not too …

By Tan Wah Piow Lord Anthony Lester of Herne Hill, who in December 2012 told the British House of Lords that Singapore’s conviction of Alan Shadrake for scandalizing the Singapore court was “the most notorious example” of use of the “outmoded and archaic” law, has published a new book Five Ideas to Fight For. Alan Shadrake, a British journalist, was …