which Chiara
Sangiorgio, of
Amnesty
International
called ‘cruel
and inhumane’.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam
In April
2009,
Nagen, a
23-year-old
Malaysian
man, with
intellectual
disability,
was
arrested at
the
Woodlands
Checkpoint entering Singapore with 43g of
heroin strapped to his thigh. He was
sentenced to death in November 2010.
Although considered to have intellectual
disability, the court held that it was not
severe enough so that he must have known
what he was doing at the time of the offence
and that no other evidence of his disability
was required. Nagaenthran was executed
on 27 April 2022, despite pleas against this
from many nations around the world.
Prabagaran Srivijayan
25-year-old
Malaysian man
was arrested in
April 2012 when
22g of heroin was
found in the car he
was driving, which
he had borrowed
from a friend.
There was evidence of an unfair trial and a
failure by the authorities to investigate
evidence which could exonerate him. His
lawyers were not permitted to visit him in
Changi prison. And although he co
operated with the investigating authorities
they did not provide him with a certi cate of
assistance which would have allowed for his
death sentence to be commuted to a life
sentence. The DPP began an appeal in the
Malaysian courts in January 2017, however,
Praba was was executed in July 2017, while
an appeal was still pending.
Acknowledgements
With special thanks to the following organisations and individuals who lent their considerable assistance and expertise
towards this research in Singapore: Harm Reduction International, Kirsten Han, Rhea Singh, among others.
Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford
For more research see:
fi
foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow