Nagendran drug case
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam remains confined to a cell in Singapore’s Changi Prison, living on death row as he has been over the past 11 years. In 2009, aged 21, Nagaenthran was caught trying to enter Singapore with just under 43 grams of diamorphine (heroin) strapped to his thigh. A year later, he was sentenced to death….
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam remains confined to a cell in Singapore’s Changi Prison, living on death row as he has been over the past 11 years.
In 2009, aged 21, Nagaenthran was caught trying to enter Singapore with just under 43 grams of diamorphine (heroin) strapped to his thigh. A year later, he was sentenced to death.
Nagendran drug case
Nagaenthran claimed he was coerced into carrying drugs, although he later said that he acted as a mule because he needed the money.
His legal team has argued that his low IQ of 69 indicates an intellectual disability, affecting his ability to make informed decisions.
The case has provoked widespread international condemnation from human rights groups to representatives from the European Union and British entrepreneur Richard Branson.
There was even a rare intervention from the Malaysian Prime Minister. Ismail Sabri Yaakob penned a letter to his Singaporean counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, seeking leniency, according to Malaysia’s state news agency Bernama.
The plight of Nagaenthran has also generated rare criticism within the city-state itself. A petition started by a Singaporean to halt the execution has received more than 80,000 signatures.
