Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

Last week, Singapore hanged Mohd Aziz bin Hussain and Saridewi Binte Djamani. They have notified that they will carry out another execution of a Singapore Malay man this Wednesday, in two days time. Today I call for this nation's good friend Singapore to follow in the footsteps of Malaysia and cease barbaric executions of its citizens immediately. If this execution proceeds on Wednesday, it will be the 16th execution in Singapore since March last year—that is, effectively, one person killed every month. Many of these executions, including the three I've mentioned, were for minor drug offences.

In the case of Saridewi Binte Djamani, she was the first woman to be executed in almost 30 years. Saridewi was found in possession of just 30 grams of heroin. She was convicted in 2018 under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act for possession for the purposes of trafficking. Advocates for Saridewi said that she was suffering from severe drug withdrawal when she was being interrogated by police. Statements were made under duress and should not have been admissible in court. Singapore is a modern rules based country, so where was Saridewi's lawyer during her interview? Bizarrely, in Singapore, you aren't allowed to be legally represented upon arrest or during interrogation by police. The basic right of legal representation is denied in modern Singapore. Many of these people caught in this unfair and brutal system come from minorities who can't even speak the language and have drug dependency issues.

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