Singapore: Independent rights experts urge immediate end to ‘unlawful use’ of death penalty

PRESSIVIO NEWS BRIEF · WORLD

Pressivio’s World desk has added the source report “Singapore: Independent rights experts urge immediate end to ‘unlawful use’ of death penalty” to its international monitoring stream.

Independent UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Tuesday condemned the execution of at least 16 people in Singapore for drug-related offences this year and urged the country to end its “continued and unlawful use of capital punishment.”