{"id":18462,"date":"2020-05-20T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/singapore-sentences-man-to-death-via-zoom-call"},"modified":"2020-05-20T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:42:57","slug":"singapore-sentences-man-to-death-via-zoom-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18462","title":{"rendered":"Singapore sentences man to death via Zoom call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian man receives sentence remotely for role in drug deal as city-state tries to stem coronavirus<\/p>\n<p>A man convicted of drug-trafficking offences has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call, the city-state\u2019s first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups condemned the sentencing of Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, as inhumane, and a reminder of the country\u2019s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related offences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/singapore-sentences-man-to-death-via-zoom-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian man receives sentence remotely for role in drug deal as city-state tries to stem coronavirusA man convicted of drug-trafficking offences has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call, the city-state\u2019s first case where capital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,1069,783,58,42,1344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-singapore","category-technology","category-world-news","category-zoom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions\/18463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}