The foreign minister says they are trying to convince the Singapore government to spare Pannir Selvam Pranthaman from hanging.
KLUANG: The government is seeking ways to help a Malaysian who is scheduled to be hanged in Singapore on Friday for drug trafficking, said Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah.
“Just now, I discussed with Liew and he is working on behalf of Putrajaya to try and convince the Singapore government to spare him the death penalty,” Saifuddin told reporters at a Ramadan programme at Kampung Tengah here today. Saifuddin said that in similar cases in the past, the government had also taken the same approach of trying to get a lighter sentence for those sentenced to death.Asked how Putrajaya could resolve the issue of alleged short notice for carrying out the death sentence, he said there was nothing much the government could do.
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