Stop execution of Malaysian citizen


MALAYSIAN citizen Abd Helmi Ab Halim is to be hanged at Singapore’s Changi Prison on Friday. Helmi was convicted and sentenced to death for allegedly trafficking in 16.56g of diamorphine on March 24, 2017.

Helmi, aged 36, is from Johor and is married with children. He has consistently denied any knowledge of the drugs he is alleged to have been carrying.

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