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Nationality is not a factor considered in the scheduling of executions, the attorney for the Attorney General’s Office said yesterday, in the case of a convicted Singaporean drug trafficker who challenges the authorities’ decision to carry out his hanging before other sentenced to death. inmates.
Syed Suhail Syed Zin, 44, who is represented by attorney M. Ravi, alleged that there was discrimination based on nationality because he was scheduled to be hanged before Malaysian drug lord Datchinamurthy Kataiah, who was sentenced to death before him.
Yesterday, the state’s lead attorney, Francis Ng, told the Supreme Court that Datchinamurthy’s execution had not been scheduled because he was affected by a separate case pending a Court of Appeal decision. In that case, Malaysian drug lord Gobi Avedian, who is also represented by Ravi, escaped from the gallows on October 19 after getting the high court to review his conviction.
Ng said Suhail’s belief that foreigners and Singaporeans were being treated differently was “unfounded” and Ravi’s accusations that the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) was biased against Singaporeans was “empty rhetoric” .
Judge See Kee Oon will give his decision on Suhail’s request for judicial review at a later date.
Suhail received the mandatory death penalty on December 2, 2015 for trafficking 38.84 g of heroin. His appeal was dismissed and his clemency request was rejected.
On September 11 of this year, they told him that they would hang him on September 18. Ravi then asked the High Court for permission to judicially review the SPS decision on scheduling his execution.
Yesterday, Mr. Ravi mentioned a death row inmate, Singaporean Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad, arguing that Suhail was scheduled to be hanged before those sentenced before him. Ng said that the programming was carried out in a “rational and principled way” and that there were good reasons why the executions of Datchinamurthy and Masoud were not scheduled before those of Suhail.
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