24 death-row inmates’ lawsuit against AG: Apex court rejects appeal and last-ditch stay of execution for prisoner

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SINGAPORE — After some seven hours of deliberation and at a hearing that went past midnight, the Court of Appeal denied an eleventh-hour stay of execution for convicted drug trafficker Abdul Rahim Shapiee, who was among 24 death row inmates suing the Attorney-General (AG).

Former police officer Iskandar Rahmat, 43, who has been on death row since 2017 for a double murder in Kovan four years earlier, spoke most of the time on behalf of the other inmates.

He disagreed with High Court Judge See Kee Oon, who had struck out the lawsuit on Wednesday, that even if their originating claim was filed on July 28, there would still be a need for an expedited hearing. On his part, Chief Justice Menon spent much of the hearing explaining the process of cost orders to the inmates.

He alleged that he had asked Mr Nadwani Manoj Prakash, the pro bono lawyer who defended him during his drug trafficking trial, to call a co-accused person to the stand. In response, Deputy Senior State Counsel Lu said that the prosecution had offered Nuraiin as a defence witness during the trial. However, she was never named as someone who could help with his defences.

 

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