Singaporeans hold vigil for Malaysian in high-profile death row case


About 300 Singaporeans gathered for a vigil for Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, at Speakers' Corner in Singapore on Monday (April 25). - Photo: AFP

SINGAPORE (REUTERS): About 300 people held a candlelight vigil at a Singapore park on Monday (April 25) night to protest against the planned hanging of a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling whom activists say should be spared because he has an intellectual disability.

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, has been on death row for more than a decade for trafficking 43g of heroin into Singapore. He lost his final appeal against the execution last month.

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