Tag: Singapore
Posted on Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 02:16:39 PM EST
Tags: Jolly Hangman, Alan Shadrake, Singapore (all tags)
photo by Alan Shadrake
British author Alan Shadrake, whose book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice on the Dock, was recently released, has been detained in Singapore on charges including criminal defamation and contempt of court.
His book contained an interview with Darshan Singh, pictured above, the now retired head executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison.
The book also features interviews with local human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers on various cases involving capital punishment in the city-state, which carries out the death penalty by hanging.
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Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:34:04 PM EST
Tags: Peter Lloyd, Singapore (all tags)
Good news for Australian journalist Peter Lloyd, arrested last week for trafficking in one gram of meth in Singapore. He's been released on bail.
He's still facing 20 years and up to 15 lashes of the cane.
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