SOLIDARITY VIGIL:
NO TO DEATH PENALTY

Posted by Sinapan Samydorai under Public Forums on 1 November 2005

Solidarity event for Nguyen Tuong Van and others like him on death row, and in remembrance of those hanged like Shanmugam. Monday, November 7th, Hotel Asia from 7 to 11 pm. All concern persons are invited. Please come and show your solidarity.

SOLIDARITY VIGIL:
NO TO DEATH PENALTY

SOLIDARITY VIGIL FOR NGUYEN TUONG VAN
& OTHERS LIKE HIM
and in remembrance of those hanged like Shanmugam.

MONDAY, 7TH NOVEMBER 2005, 7-11 pm
HOTEL ASIA,
Scotts Road (Beside Newton MRT)

This event is convened by an independent, non-partisan, non affiliated group of Singaporeans with concerns about Death Penalty practices in Singapore & elsewhere.

SHOW YOUR CONCERN FOR NGUYEN TUONG VAN & ALL THE HUNDREDS OF OTHERS LIKE HIM and in remembrance of those hanged.

HANGED 13 MAY 2005

Shanmugam, S/O Murugesu, (his friends called him Sam) National Jet Ski Champion. Beloved son. Father of twin boys. Accused of peddling marijuana.His impoverished, abandoned family will never recover.

TO HANG NOVEMBER 2005

Van Tuong Nguyen, no previous criminal record, born in a refugee camp in Thailand, moved to Australia mother and twin brother when six months old. Van told investigating officers he had agreed to carry a packet of heroin in order to pay off debts owed by his twin brother. He said he did not know how much he was being paid for the trip. It was his first trip outside Australia. He was such an amateur he ran through Changi airport

DON'T LET THIS "SOFT SPOKEN SOUL" DIE

Before he was executed Shanmugam said to his lawyer of Nguyen Tuong Van: "All the inmates on death row agree on this if one of us is to be saved we are glad that it will be this boy - he is such a polite soft spoken soul".

How long will such small-fry desperate beings be hanged in Singapore while fat-cat drug lords go free? If this inhumane practice is really a deterrent, how come we after 40 years of executions STILL have the HIGHEST PER CAPITA EXECUTION RATE IN THE WORLD with the greatest known proportion of these executions small-time drug mules like Shanmugam and Tuong Van?

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

* Madam Letchumi Murugesu, Mother of Shanmugam Murugesu
* Alex Au, Social Commentator, Yawning Bread
* Anthony Yeo, Clinical Director, Counseling & Care Centre
* M. Ravi Human Rights Lawyer
* Dr Chee Soon Juan, Secretary General, Singapore Democratic Party

Send Urgent Appeal
Nguyen Tuong Van faces imminent death
by hanging

Sign Petition
Calling for Moratorium on the death penalty

Think Centre urges the Singapore government to impose a moratorium on executions, with a view to complete abolition, in line with the April 2005 UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) resolution on the question of the death penalty; and the UNCHR urges states which still maintain the death penalty not to impose it as a mandatory sentence, or for crimes without lethal or extremely grave consequences.

Think Centre: Reaffirms Call for Moratorium on executions

13 May 2005 Shanmugam hanged

Sources and Relevant Links:

Think Centre Nguyen Tuong Van faces death by hanging 21 October 2005

Think Centre Death Penalty: Nguyen Tuong Van appeals 04 April 2005

Think Centre Death Penalty: NGUYEN, Vietnamese refugee-cum-scout 27 March 2004

The Courier-Mail MERCILESS CITY-STATE IS THE HANGMAN OF ASIA 05 Nov 2005

The Age Diplomatic Hopes Fade For Nguyen 5 November 2005 Australia:

The Age Fighting Against The Tide Of Opinion 05 November 2005

The Age The letter from George Yeo to Alexander Downer 4 November 2005

The Age Nguyen supporters vow to fight on 3 November 2005

The Age Time running out for Nguyen 4 November 2005

AFP Singaporean activists campaign against hanging of Aussie drug runner 1 November 05

The Age Time to retire the noose 2 November 2005

Think Centre Think Centre: Reaffirms Call for Moratorium on executions 20 April 2005

Think Centre Drug Addicts and Death Penalty in Singapore 13 July 2001

Think Centre Capital punishment on drug trafficking - is it mirror of society? 01 November 2005


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