{"id":54648,"date":"2023-04-26T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T03:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/singapore-executes-man-over-plot-to-smuggle-1kg-of-cannabis"},"modified":"2023-04-26T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T03:25:55","slug":"singapore-executes-man-over-plot-to-smuggle-1kg-of-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54648","title":{"rendered":"Singapore executes man over plot to smuggle 1kg of cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged despite international pleas to reconsider capital punishment for drugs offences<\/p>\n<p>Singapore has hanged a prisoner for conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international protests and concerns that he lacked full access to a lawyer or interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Human Rights Office had called for Singapore to \u201curgently reconsider\u201d the hanging and British tycoon Richard Branson had urged the city state halt it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/26\/singapore-executes-man-over-plot-to-smuggle-1kg-of-cannabis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged despite international pleas to reconsider capital punishment for drugs offencesSingapore has hanged a prisoner for conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international protests and concer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"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":[41,1038,372,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-drugs","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648","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\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54649,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54648\/revisions\/54649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}