Singapore execution: Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, hanged over plot to smuggle kilogram of hashish
Singapore has hanged a person over a hashish smuggling plot - regardless of calls from the United Nations to cease the execution.Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged at daybreak on Wednesday after being discovered responsible of conspiring to smuggle a kilogram of hashish into the nation from neighbouring Malaysia.
Protesters beforehand claimed that the 46-year-old, who denied involvement within the plot, had been convicted on weak proof - a declare denied by authorities in Singapore.Relatives and activists had beforehand despatched letters to Singapore's President Halimah Yacob to plead for leniency.His sentence additionally drew the eye of the United Nations Human Rights Office, which referred to as on the federal government to "urgently reconsider", whereas British entrepreneur Ri...