Malaysian lawyers appeal to Singapore to spare the life of Pausi Jefridin


KOTA KINABALU: Singapore's President and Prime Minister are being urged by Malaysian lawyers to stop the execution of mentally disabled Sabahan, Pausi Jefridin.

Sabah Law Society, Advocates' Association of Sarawak and the Bar of the States of Malaya co-signed two letters addressed to the two Singapore leaders, calling upon them to exercise its powers of clemency to commute the death sentence of Pausi, who had been convicted of drug-trafficking in Singapore in 2010.

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