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Singapore Justice in the Dock Indeed

Singapore Justice in the Dock Indeed

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Oct 19, 2010
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This week the Singapore government is taking on a 75-year-old British author for publishing a book arguing that the country's secretive but mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking is unevenly applied against poor and marginalized defendants while the wealthy or well-connected are spared.

If the past is any precedent, Alan Shadrake, who wrote Once a …

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