{"id":43038,"date":"2022-03-30T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/man-hanged-in-singapore-amid-concern-over-surge-of-execution-notices"},"modified":"2022-03-30T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T11:39:04","slug":"man-hanged-in-singapore-amid-concern-over-surge-of-execution-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43038","title":{"rendered":"Man hanged in Singapore amid concern over surge of execution notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families of those facing death sentence fear authorities are pushing ahead to free up space on death row<\/p>\n<p>A 68-year-old man has been hanged for drug trafficking in Singapore in the first execution to be carried out in the city state in more than two years, as the UN rights office expressed concern over a \u201csurge in execution notices\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Kahar bin Othman was convicted on two charges of trafficking diamorphine in 2013. He was sentenced to death in 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/man-hanged-in-singapore-amid-concern-over-surge-of-execution-notices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of those facing death sentence fear authorities are pushing ahead to free up space on death rowA 68-year-old man has been hanged for drug trafficking in Singapore in the first execution to be carried out in the city state in more than two year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038\/revisions\/43039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}