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Singapore: Independent rights experts urge immediate end to ‘unlawful use’ of death penalty
UN News August 18, 2026 Independent UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Tuesday condemned the execution of at least 16 people in Singapore for drug-related offences this year and urged the country to end its “continued and unlawful use of capital punishment.” Credit: The United Nations According to the experts – who receive no salary for their work from any UN entity and are not employed by any organization – the Government’s mandatory death penalties and statutory p


Human rights organizations call on Singapore to drop charges
Morgan Polen September 10, 2026 Credit: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and the World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS) on Thursday urged the Singapore government to drop charges against several human rights activists involved in peaceful assemblies in support of Gaza, and to challenge the death penalty. Elijah Tay, Kyal Sin Linn Naing, Dayana Noor Mohamed, Nur Sabrina Kamel, Nurul Afiqah Kamel and Ami


MacaU's first national security case raises concerns
Kanis Leung July 29, 2026 Credit: Cherry Au Hon I via AP HONG KONG – When former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested in July 2025, his family and observers of politics in the Chinese special administrative region were shocked. A year on, little is known about his case, even by his daughter. Au is the first publicly known arrest under Macao’s national security law since its 2009 enactment and critics say his case signals Beijing’s emphasis on security and into
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