Outrage as Singapore prepares to execute man with learning disabilities over drugs charges

Decision to execute Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam widely condemned by rights groups

Rights groups have urged the Singapore government to halt the execution this week of a man convicted for smuggling heroin, stating that he has learning disabilities and the sentence is a cruel violation of international law.

Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national, was arrested in April 2009, when he was 21, for attempting to smuggle 43 grams of heroin into Singapore. The drugs had been strapped to his thigh. He was sentenced to death the following year and, having spent more than 12 years on death row, is now facing execution on 10 November.

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