The most serious of the trio is the offence of drug trafficking under section 5 of the MDA. Singaporean woman among 6 caught for alleged drug smuggling in Bali. A Malaysian national, S. Prabagaran was recently convicted of trafficking drugs in Singapore, which carries the death penalty. A 40-year-old Singaporean woman who claimed she was stocking up on heroin for her own use during the fasting month has failed in her bid to escape the death penalty. Singaporean woman among 6 foreigners arrested for drug offences in Indonesia: Police A total of about 240g of heroin, about 1.5g of ‘Ice’ and about 500 ‘Ecstasy’ tablets were seized. 400 people were hanged for drug trafficking in Singapore between 1991 and 2004. Singapore drug trafficking penalties are among the harshest in the world. Saridewi, who was handed the mandatory death penalty, is appealing against her sentence. Both men were charged on Friday with trafficking Class A controlled drugs. Singapore on Friday hanged two convicted drug dealers in the first executions since a moratorium was imposed in 2011 to review a mandatory death penalty law, the anti-narcotics bureau said. SE Asia News -JAKARTA - A Singaporean, working illegally as a deejay in Bali, has been arrested for drug trafficking in the popular resort island in Indonesia, said local anti-narcotics authorities The People’s Court of the southwestern border province of Tay Ninh on August 7 hands a death penalty to Cher Wei Hon, a 40-year-old Singaporean man, for drug trafficking. Outside Beijing's No. This week: content creator Danil Palma. He had met the two conditions giving the court the discretion not to impose the death sentence – his role was confined to that of being a courier, and he had given significant assistance to the CNB in its investigations. The EU on Monday imposed sanctions against four Chinese officials over the crackdown on the Uighurs, sparking an immediate tit-for-tat response against Europeans from Beijing. JOHOR BAHRU: Malaysian police arrested a Singaporean couple and seized drugs worth about RM41,000 (S$13,397) during a raid at a condominium in Danga Bay on Monday (Apr 13). Chijioke Stephen Obioha: A Nigerian drug trafficker who was caught trafficking 2,604.56g of cannabis into Singapore in April 2007. Photo: Tuan Anh / Tuoi Tre Photo: Tuan Anh / Tuoi Tre A court in southern Vietnam on Friday handed a Singaporean man the death sentence for trafficking nearly ten kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam. Copyright© Mediacorp 2021. "The law allows for a life sentence or the death penalty," Ida Bagus Komang Ardika, head of the Bali police narcotics unit, told reporters. It looks like the email address you entered is not valid. Thai women and a Frenchman could face the death penalty. Apart from Singapore’s notorious ban on chewing gum, foreigners also associate Singapore with her draconian drug laws, known to be one of the strictest around the world. According to a statement by the CNB, officers had swooped in onto the vicinity of Geylang Lorong 10 and caught 19 suspected drug offenders shortly after 8pm on Tuesday. Saridewi Djamani, who was charged with trafficking a total of 1kg of drugs containing 30.72g of pure heroin, also claimed she was suffering from persistent depressive disorder and severe substance use disorder. As Singaporean drug counselor and ex-detainee Tony Tan explains: "[Penalties for] the first time you are caught for drug consumption is one year, the second time is three years and the third time is five minimum with three strokes of the cane," says Tan. A Malaysian national, S. Prabagaran was recently convicted of trafficking drugs in Singapore, which carries the death penalty. In July, Aslinda and Yusri were convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death, almost five years after they were arrested in October 2015. The officers arrested the three Singaporeans, two men aged 43 and 44, and a … Singaporean Cher Wei Hon, 40, stands trial for drug trafficking at the People’s Court of Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, August 7, 2020. In Vietnam, those found guilty of smuggling more than 600g of heroin or more than 2.5kg of methamphetamine may be sentenced to the death penalty. Her urine test after her arrest in June 2016, however, did not indicate any heroin use. Lionel Messi scored twice on Sunday as Barcelona trounced Real Sociedad 6-1 to keep the pressure on Atletico Madrid, who squeezed past Alaves thanks to a late penalty save from Jan Oblak. The 29-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for suspected drug trafficking offences. The drugs are thought to be worth US$3,450 (S$4,670). In his grounds of decision, Justice See pointed out inconsistencies in Saridewi’s claims about her rate of heroin consumption. Singaporean drug trafficker gets death sentence Saturday, 08/08/2020, 09:28 The People’s Court of the southwestern border province of Tay Ninh on August 7 handed a death penalty to a 40-year-old Singaporean man for drug trafficking. A sixth person, a Singaporean woman who was caught with a small amount of cocaine, will not face the death penalty, authorities said. Saridewi was caught on 17 June 2016 when a Malaysian accomplice, 41-year-old Muhammad Haikal Abdullah, met her at her HDB block around 3.35pm and gave her a plastic bag filled with drugs… The former Meghan Markle, 39, sued publisher Associated Newspapers for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement over five February 2019 articles that reproduced large portions of a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, after her marriage to Prince Harry. Photo: Tuan Anh / Tuoi Tre A court in southern Vietnam on Friday handed a Singaporean man the death sentence for trafficking nearly ten kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam. While death sentences are often reduced to long jail terms, Indonesia has executed foreign nationals in the past, including two Australian masterminds of the Bali Nine heroin gang who were shot in 2015. The High Court had heard how on 17 June 2016, at about 3.35pm, Saridewi’s accomplice Muhammad Haikal Abdullah, 41, met her at the block of her flat. (Yahoo News Singapore file photo). Aslinda was deemed to have played a bigger role in the offence. South Africa has sold a million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for distribution in 14 fellow African nations, the health minister announced Sunday. Indonesia has slowed the pace of its executions in recent years despite broad public support for the penalty. Prabagaran failed in his bid to halt his execution and will be facing the gallows today (14th July). The group, arrested in separate incidents this month and in November, were paraded in shackles and orange jumpsuits at Bali's airport customs office, escorted by machine-gun toting police - a common practice in Indonesia. It is curious, then, that high ranking Singaporean officials do not seem to maintain the same hard-line attitude when dealing with their Burmese counterparts. Singaporean Cher Wei Hon, 40, stands trial for drug trafficking at the People’s Court of Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, August 7, 2020. The suspect, later identified as Castillo, was arrested. TWO MORE ARRESTED. Singapore court acquits Nigerian man of drug trafficking, reversing its own decision Ilechukwu Uchechukwu Chukwudi was arrested for trafficking 1.9kg of … PETALING JAYA, March 10 — A man who used his grocery shop as a front to conduct drug trafficking activities was finally caught when the police raided his shop in Kampung Sungai Kayu, Ara Damansara on Monday night. The Court of Appeal in Singapore has acquitted and discharged a Nigerian, Ilechukwu Uchechukwu Chukwudi, on death row for drug trafficking, nearly a decade after he was arrested. She was charged with trafficking 30.72g of heroin, while Haikal was charged with trafficking 28.22g of the drug. Although there is an overall improvement in Singapore’s drug situation, there is still a record-high number of drug abusers. Singapore’s Drug Laws: Possession, Consumption and Trafficking. 2 Intermediate Court, Jim Nickel, the Canadian Embassy’s deputy chief of mission, told journalists he had been told the trial had begun, but was barred from entry in what he said was a violation of China's international and bilateral treaty obligations. File photo . 30 grams of cannabis. A second Canadian citizen held for more than two years on spying charges in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei went on trial in Beijing on Monday. Tang Hai Liang, 36, had been convicted of trafficking 89.55 grams (3.2 ounces) of pure heroin and Foong Chee Peng, 48, had been found guilty of dealing 40.23 grams of the same illegal drug. Random checks are conducted at Singapore’s entry points (such as Changi Airport and Woodlands Checkpoint) to test if travellers have consumed drugs before entering Singapore. Mediacorp Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. Anyone caught bringing 15g of heroin, 30g of cocaine or 500g of cannabis are automatically given a death sentence. SINGAPORE, Sept 23 — A Singaporean drug trafficking convict who was to be hanged last Friday (September 18) is now waiting at least two more weeks, after the Court of Appeal allowed more submissions to be made on certain points of the law. She had been accompanying her boyfriend who was caught carrying the drugs. A Singaporean convicted of drug trafficking and facing imminent execution by shooting in China, wrote to her daughter last month calling her sentence “unfair”. On Saridewi’s mental state, a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health found that while she had a longstanding history of drug abuse, she did not suffer from any other mental illness or intellectual disability. The series is dedicated to inspirational men and women in Singapore leading healthy and active lifestyles. Upon hearing movements outside the door, she threw plastic bags containing drugs out of her kitchen window on the 16th floor. Tough anti-drug laws. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal heard … A 40-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to death by a court in Southern Vietnam, ... Cher admitted that he had conducted five such trips prior to being caught. SINGAPORE — Police have arrested four Singaporeans in connection to a case of suspected drug trafficking using an unmanned aircraft. According to the indictment, Cher Wei Hon was caught in Loi Thuan commune, Ben Cau district, Tay Ninh province, on June 29, 2019, along with nearly 10kg of drugs, and 27-year-old driver Duong Hung Tam from Tan Bien ward, Tan Bien district, also Tay Ninh province. There are dozens of smugglers on death row in Indonesia, including a cocaine-trafficking British grandmother, an American caught with crystal methamphetamine, and several west African inmates. A 32-year-old man admitted on Monday (22 March) to sexually abusing two brothers who looked up to the man as their godfather. Haikal, a Malaysian, was intercepted at a traffic junction on his motorcycle shortly after he left the block. Haikal was given life imprisonment with the mandatory minimum 15 strokes of the cane. The Misuse of Drugs Act is a drug control law in Singapore classifying substances into three categories, Classes A, B, and C. Section 44 provides that "The Minister may, by an order published in the Gazette" add, remove, or transfer drugs among the classes. Last updated on April 22, 2019. Churches in Manila will be closed, eating inside restaurants banned and leisure travel outside the Philippine capital curbed under new coronavirus rules unveiled Sunday as the country battles a resurgence in infections. Under the law, those in possession of more than 2g of heroin are presumed to have the drug for trafficking, unless proven otherwise. 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China, similarly, has a death sentence for drug trafficking and two Singaporeans ran afoul of Chinese authorities when they were caught drug trafficking. Saridewi then let the CNB officers into her home before they could cut through the metal grille gate. The lack of money-laundering legislation in Singapore also means that Burmese drug barons can horde their drug money in underground bank accounts. Meanwhile, officers went to Saridewi’s flat to arrest her. The seeds of the current problems were sown last March, when Americans stayed home and dramatically changed their buying habits — instead of clothes, they bought electronics, fitness equipment and home improvement products. Chijioke was arraigned in a court in Singapore on December 30th 2008 and was sentenced to death for the crime which attracts capital punishment in Singapore. But like scores of other Republican voters, force would likely be required to get a dose into his arm. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A man from Singapore has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the People’s Court of the southwestern border province of Tây Ninh. Three Singaporean men, aged between 27 and 33, were arrested over the haul estimated to be worth close to S$1.7 million ($1.26 million). In October, police said two Thai women and a Frenchman could face the death penalty after they were caught smuggling drugs into Bali. The law in Singapore usually sides with the Landlord. Change password, update personal details and more. A Singaporean man who was arrested while trying to buy heroin to sell it to others has been sentenced to death. SINGAPORE, Sept 18 — In a rare move, the Court of Appeal yesterday reversed its own decision to convict a Nigerian man of a capital drug trafficking charge, almost a decade after he was arrested. 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