pThe Minister of Home Affairs took aim at activists who criticised Singapore's drug control approach./p
While Singapore tries to help abusers, it takes a tough stance against drug traffickers, said Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam.
“That is why I use the analogy of war. I am talking about a war against those who profit off the drug trade at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.” He said in the last decade, there have been hundreds of shootings, fires and bombings in Antwerp, Belgium, many of which were linked to gang-related violence for a piece of the cocaine trade.
He called out five parties - the Transformative Justice Collective, The Online Citizen Asia, Mr Andrew Loh, Ms Kirsten Han and Mr Ravi Madasamy, known as M Ravi.who was spared the gallows for drug offences in Oct 2020, after a five-judge Court of Appeal overturned an earlier decision by the same court.
'A single hanging of a drug trafficker is a tragedy; a million deaths from drug abuse is a statistic'In the past few years, large groups of death row inmates have jointly filed applications to the court after all avenues of appeal and clemency have been exhausted.will require death row inmates to seek permission from the Court of Appeal before filing further applications to delay their executions after they have exhausted their appeals.
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