Recently in a Joint statement issued by above international
organisations, has condemned the execution of Nigerian national, Chijioke
Stephen Obioha in Singapore. Read below:
"We, the
undersigned organisations, condemn the shameful execution of a Nigerian
national, Chijioke Stephen Obioha, and a Malaysian national, Devendran a/l
Supramaniam in Singapore on 18 November 2016, which runs counter to global
trends towards abolition of capital punishment.
Around the same time, at the 50th and 51st meeting
of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee’s 71stsession
proceedings, the Singapore representative introduced amendments, undermining
the spirit of the draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the death
penalty, supported by states such as Syria, Egypt and Bangladesh.
We remain appalled that Singapore continues to execute people in
contravention of international law and standards. The two men were sentenced to
mandatory death penalty, after being convicted of drug trafficking, which does
not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes”.
In July 2011, during its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR),
Singapore accepted a recommendation that called on the government to make
available statistics and other factual information on the use of the death
penalty (A/HRC/18/11, para. 95.15). The lack of transparency in relation to the
scheduled executions therefore remains deeply concerning and prevents informed
and meaningful debates in the country on the retention of this punishment.
We would like to express our regret and share in the disappointment of
the families of the executed men. We oppose the use of capital punishment in
all circumstances, as a violation of human rights which can never be justified
under the flawed assumption that it has a unique deterrent effect.
Signatories:
Singapore
Function 8
Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME)
Project X
Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC)
Think Centre
We Believe in Second Chances
Malaysia
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture (MADPET)
Indonesia
Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)
International Groups and Networks
Amnesty International (AI)
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN)
Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA)
Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM)
Franciscans International (FI)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP)
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