Singapore: Imminent execution: Azmi bin Tuki, gardener, aged about 24

Index Number: ASA 36/020/1995
Date Published: 18 September 1995
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Singapore

AI fears that Azmi bin Tuki may be executed on 22 September 1995 following President Ong Teng Cheong's recent rejection of his appeal for clemency. Azmi bin Tuki, a heroin addict who comes from a poor ethnic Malay family, was arrested outside his home in December 1993 and discovered to be carrying heroin. He was convicted of drug-trafficking and sentenced to death despite the claim that the drugs were for his own and his girlfriend's consumption.