Siti Aslinda Binte Junaidi
Singaporean citizen, Siti
Aslinda Binte Junaidi, a
single mother struggling to
support her young
daughter, was arrested for
drug traf cking. During the
trial, Aslinda informed the
court that she had met a
Nigerian man online who ha
offered her generous
Guards lead a woman to her execution for drug traf cking (Cornell
commissions to transport
Center on the Death Penalty and Harm Reduction International, 2021)
goods from China to
Cambodia and that she had
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg
not known that the innocent looking goods
contained drugs. The judge rejected her
Canadian citizen,
defence, claiming that she should have been
Robert Lloyd
aware of the contents. Aslinda has very
Schellenberg was
limited means of communicating with her
arrested in 2014,
family in Singapore, who are attempting to
accused of drug
save her through diplomatic channels,
traf cking. He was
although Singapore
initially sentenced to
itself has a high rate
a 15-year prison
of executions for
term, but after Meng Wenzhou, CFO of the
drug offences.
Chinese tech rm, Huawei was extradited to
the US from Canada, Robert was resentenced
in a one-day retrial and sentenced to death.
This has broadly been seen as a retaliation
for Ms Wenzhou’s arrest.
Acknowledgements
With special thanks to the following organisations and individuals who lent their considerable assistance and expertise
towards this research in China: Harm Reduction International, Amnesty International, Eleos Justice, Pramod Acharya, Rhea
Singh, among others.
Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford
For more research see:
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foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow