Pannir Selvam was arrested on September 3, 2014, after Singapore authorities — in a random check — discovered four packets of granular substance totalling 1.83kg he was carrying contained 51.84g of the diamorphine drug. — Picture courtesy of Pannir Selvam’s family
PETALING JAYA, July 5 — The family of Singapore death row inmate P. Pannir Selvam today announced their plans to file for a judicial review to save the soon-to-be 32-year-old from the executioner. Lawyer for the family N. Surendran said his clients are seeking to have the Malaysian drug trafficking convict’s death sentence commuted to life imprisonment if nothing else works.
“Right now we have to apply to the High Court in Singapore to cancel the decision of the Attorney General’s Chambers in not providing the certificate of substantive assistance, and thereby ordering the AG to give it,” he told a press conference here with Pannir’s family at the headquarters of his group, Lawyers for Liberty.