Save Van Nguyen
In two weeks' time (December 2), Singapore plans to hang the Australian citizen Van Nguyen. Nguyen was caught smuggling a little less than 400g of heroin into the country three years ago.
This was Nguyen's first offence. He confessed as soon as he could and assisted the police with their enquiries. He was hardly a big fish - he was trying to get money to help his identical twin brother, who was heavily in debt due to a drug addiction.
Any instance of the death penalty in any country is inhumane, fundamentally against the idea of human rights (right to life, for instance) and hopelessly anachronistic. Particularly with all the mitigating circumstances above, Singapore should not be executing Nguyen (or in fact anyone else, but that's another issue). He's a young man who made a mistake. What he did was wrong, but executing him would also be wrong.
He deserves a second chance. He doesn't deserve to die.
Amnesty International is running a campaign to get Singapore to commute Nguyen's death sentence. Here's their details on how to email the Singaporean Pm or how to SMS your support for Nguyen.
This was Nguyen's first offence. He confessed as soon as he could and assisted the police with their enquiries. He was hardly a big fish - he was trying to get money to help his identical twin brother, who was heavily in debt due to a drug addiction.
Any instance of the death penalty in any country is inhumane, fundamentally against the idea of human rights (right to life, for instance) and hopelessly anachronistic. Particularly with all the mitigating circumstances above, Singapore should not be executing Nguyen (or in fact anyone else, but that's another issue). He's a young man who made a mistake. What he did was wrong, but executing him would also be wrong.
He deserves a second chance. He doesn't deserve to die.
Amnesty International is running a campaign to get Singapore to commute Nguyen's death sentence. Here's their details on how to email the Singaporean Pm or how to SMS your support for Nguyen.
