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The Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to prosecute offenders for crimes involving illegal drugs.The law is designed specifically to grant the Government of Singapore, through its agencies such as the Central Narcotics Bureau, enforcement powers to combat offences such as the trafficking, importation or exportation, possession, and ...
An immigration card issued by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority reminding travellers to Singapore that the death penalty is imposed for drug trafficking. The appellant, Yong Vui Kong, was a 19-year-old Malaysian national who was arrested in Singapore on 13 June 2007 and charged with trafficking in 47.27 grams (1.667 oz) of diamorphine (), a Class A controlled drug under the Misuse of ...
Singapore says it has a zero-tolerance approach to drug trafficking and insists capital punishment is key to halting drug demand and supply. The nation has hanged hundreds of people - including ...
South Africa: Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 1992; Singapore: Misuse of Drugs Act (Singapore) Sweden: Lag om kontroll av narkotika (SFS 1992:860) Thailand: Psychotropic Substances Act (Thailand) and Narcotics Act; United Kingdom: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [44] and Drugs Act 2005 [60] United States: Controlled Substances Act [61]
A trial lasted for two years and on 8 August 2017, both pleaded guilty for drug trafficking. Dominic was a certified courier and was sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane , while Nazeri was given a death penalty, in which he was hung on 22 July 2022.
Drug trafficking is commonly known in the country as a criminal offence punishable by hanging, which is enforced under Second Schedule of the Misuse of Drugs Act, [18] [19] any person importing, exporting, or found in possession of more than the threshold quantities of illegal drugs can a mandatory death sentence.
Throughout his trial, Van claimed that he was carrying the drugs in a bid to pay off debts amounting to approximately A$20,000 to A$25,000 that he owed and to repay legal fees his twin brother Khoa (a former heroin addict) had incurred in defending drug-trafficking and other criminal charges including an attack on a Pacific Islander youth with a katana. [4]
Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor is a landmark decision delivered in 1980 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from Singapore which deals with the constitutionality of section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (No. 5 of 1973) (now section 17 of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185, 2008 Rev. Ed.)) ("MDA"), and the mandatory death penalty by the Act for certain offences.