Singapore to execute a woman for first time in almost 20 years
by Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6D8Q0)
Killing of Saridewi Djamani is one of two this week as activists say most on death row are marginalised people
Singapore is due to execute a woman for the first time in almost 20 years on Friday, one of two killings planned for this week.
Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2018, after she was found guilty of possession of about 30g of heroin for the purposes of trafficking, according to the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), which tracks death row cases.
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