{"id":43930,"date":"2022-04-27T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/27\/outcry-as-singapore-executes-man-with-learning-difficulties-over-drugs-offence"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:47:36","slug":"outcry-as-singapore-executes-man-with-learning-difficulties-over-drugs-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43930","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as Singapore executes man with learning difficulties over drugs offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners decry \u2018broken system\u2019 in Singapore that disproportionately punishes drug mules rather than those who coerce them into work<\/p>\n<p>A man with learning difficulties has been executed in Singapore for attempting to smuggle a small amount of heroin, despite repeated pleas for his life to be spared, in a case campaigners have described as a \u201ctragic miscarriage of justice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national, was arrested in 2009, aged 21, for attempting to carry 43g of heroin \u2013 about three tablespoons \u2013 into Singapore. He was sentenced to death the following year, and then spent more than a decade on death row.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/27\/outcry-as-singapore-executes-man-with-learning-difficulties-over-drugs-offence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners decry \u2018broken system\u2019 in Singapore that disproportionately punishes drug mules rather than those who coerce them into workA man with learning difficulties has been executed in Singapore for attempting to smuggle a small amount of heroin, de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,1038,70,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-malaysia","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43940,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930\/revisions\/43940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}