I think he was already present in the country, he's actually a Singaporean. There's a lot of ethnic Malay folks, or folks from India in Singapore. Also, this du

I think he was already present in the country, he's actually a Singaporean. There's a lot of ethnic Malay folks, or folks from India in Singapore. Also, this dude has been in jail for nearly 10 years (since 2014). Pretty flimsy case it seems: Tangaraju was arrested in 2014 for drug consumption and for failing to show up for drug tests. While he was in remand, authorities identified Tangaraju for his potential involvement in a case of cannabis trafficking in September 2013. The court ruled that a phone number used to coordinate a drug delivery belonged to Tangaraju, and found him guilty of abetting the trafficking attempt. Tangaraju denied being involved in the transaction. Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xn7b/death-penalty-singapore-cannabis https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xn7b/death-penalty-singapo... I wonder how much of Singapore's drug punishment policy is economic: they want to create a corporate and financial haven, and if they permit too much drug trafficking and international organized crime, the may end up with harsher KYC/AML requirements, that will hamper these businesses. It's probably sold under the harm it can do to "the population", but under the economic theory that's only tangentially true (via reduced trickle down), it's really about the harm done to large banking and services base in Asia if it co-locates with too much high volume illicit business. I also wonder how much racism in Singapore affects this, looking at the list of people executed by Singapore I notice that non-Chinese names outnumber Chinese names by a lot, despite Chinese being the dominant socioeconomic class in Singapore. Singapore death row inmates allege racial bias: https://transformativejusticecollective.org/2021/08/16/investigating-the-presence-of-structural-biases-in-the-criminal-punishment-system/ https://transformativejusticecollective.org/2021/08/16/inves... Another article with additional info about this human's situation: https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/662908 https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/662908 And some articles about racism in Singapore: https://www.beenaroundtheglobe.com/racism-singapore/ https://www.beenaroundtheglobe.com/racism-singapore/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/5/singapore-executions-under-scrutiny-as-more-hanged-for-drugs https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/5/singapore-executions... https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/07/29/racial-prejudice-rears-its-head-in-singapore https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/07/29/racial-prejudice-r... (https://web.archive.org/web/20230422045704/https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/07/29/racial-prejudice-rears-its-head-in-singapore https://web.archive.org/web/20230422045704/https://www.econo...) It would be great if posting something on here could stop this guy getting executed.