A family member carries a potrait of the late Malaysian national Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, who was executed for trafficking heroin into Singapore, during a funeral ceremony in Tanjung Rambutan in Malaysia's Perak district, on April 29, 2022. Hundreds of mourners wept, read prayers and banged drums April 29 at the funeral of a mentally disabled Malaysian man whose hanging in Singapore this week sparked an international outcry. - AFP
SINGAPORE, April 29 (Bernama): Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan had replied to their Malaysian counterparts on Tuesday (April 26) to convey that Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam had been accorded full due process under the law.
This was according to the republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson in a statement issued here in response to media queries on the appeal letters from Malaysian leaders on the judicial execution of Nagaenthran.
On Thursday (April 27), Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) said the government through Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah this week once again sent letters to their counterparts in Singapore in an effort to ask the country's government to consider and to commute his sentence.
The first letter to the Singapore government was sent by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in November 2021.
In December 2021, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah also sent a letter to the President of the Republic of Singapore to commute Nagaenthran's death sentence.
Nagaenthran, 34, was executed on April 27 at Changi Prison, Singapore.
Hailing from Perak, Nagaenthran was sentenced to death in 2010 for trafficking 42.72g of heroin in 2009 into Singapore.
He was supposed to have been executed on Nov 10, 2021, but found temporary respite on Nov 9 after the court was told he had tested positive for COVID-19 when he appeared for a final appeal against his death sentence.
Nagaenthran’s lawyers claim that he is intellectually disabled. - Bernama
