Thoughts after reading this article: -
Potential of being unfairly treated aside, what did they expect in this case? They knew the punishment of drug trafficking is death penalty. It is not something that the MHA decided out of thin air, they knew the consequences of their actions and still they did what they did.
Sure, death penalty is harsh for drug trafficking. Some would argue it is inhumane. But the laws are established for a long time already. It baffles me when idiots like Kirsten Han come to these offenders' defense and come up with extremely convoluted reasons to stay their execution.
If it was a legit reason, it is still up to the Court to decide what to do with the convicts. Yet at the end of the day, their reasoning boils down to -- these convicts were too stupid to understand the law and were unjustly treated in prison. Talk about negative stereotypes
Why don't these "human rights activists" sue the prison guards and MHA instead? Why use this as grounds for changing the sentencing? Just because the prison mistreated the inmates, if proven to be true, doesn't mean the inmates now suddenly became innocent.
And what I hated most about such cases was the extremely discombobulated argument of systemic racism. They, most of them Malays, argue that because many police officers are Malays, they were racially targetted by the police. Like, huh? You would've thought it was the Chinese that racially targets the minorities but no, they are literally saying Malay police officers targetted Malay drug traffickers because they are all Malays. What kind of stupid is this really?
Also, why wasn't such injustice brought up during their original court case? Did they not plea guilty? Or are the "HRAs" saying that they were coerced to confess? If it's the latter, why was it not mentioned? These "HRAs" who gave the convicts a false hope of reversing their death sentence are saying -- these people did commit the crimes but because death penalty is inhumane therefore the convicts must be unjustly treated in prison. It doesn't really hold water, does it?
Besides, what the "HRAs" chose not to do was to petition to repeal the death penalty in Singapore's laws. Why not? Many countries abolished the death penalty a long time ago, why didn't they raise this issue and get support to make the case that Singapore should be doing away with it too? If you ask me, I'd say that's because these "human rights activists" are not concerned about human rights. They are only concerned about making the Government and the legal system the enemy of the people so that they look like they are the David fighting the Goliath. Because they are not human rights activists, they are anti-establishments advocates.