Singapore: Further information on Death penalty/Imminent execution

Index Number: ASA 36/002/2002
Date Published: 7 January 2002
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Singapore

It is now known that Mohammed Afzal Khan is also due to be executed along with Mohammed Ali Hashim on 11 January 2002, following the rejection of their appeals for clemency by the President of Singapore. The two men were sentenced to death in January 2001 for trafficking in heroin.