Les Nations unies exhortent Singapour à mettre fin aux exécutions

Le HCDH a condamné l'exécution imminente de Tangaraju Suppiah, dont l'affaire est entachée de vices de procédure et constitue une violation du droit international des droits humains. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

The United Nations Human Rights Office pressed Singapore on Tuesday to “urgently reconsider” its scheduled execution of a man over one kilogramme of cannabis.

Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, is scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiracy to traffic 1,018 grammes of cannabis, twice the amount that merits the death sentence in the city-state.

It would be Singapore’s first execution in six months and the 12th since last year.

The country has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws and insists the death penalty remains an effective deterrent against trafficking.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) disagrees.