Singapore: Further information on Imminent Execution: Van Tuong Nguyen (m)

Index Number: ASA 36/004/2005
Date Published: 17 November 2005
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Singapore

Van Tuong Nguyen will be hanged on 2 December, according to a letter his family received on 17 November from the government of Singapore. Executions are usually carried out at dawn. The President had rejected an appeal for clemency on 21 October.