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Singapore: Independent rights experts urge immediate end to ‘unlawful use’ of death penalty

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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.”

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