Malaysia urged to intervene in the execution of Pannir Selvam for drugs in Singapore

Legislators in Kuala Lumpur have urged the Government to intervene as the time for the Pannir Selvam sentenced by Malaysia ends, who will be executed in Singapore on Thursday by smuggling around 50 grams of heroin in the state of the city.

Pannir, 30, was sentenced to death in 2017 for importing diamorphine, a powerful opioid known as medical heroin, in Singapore in 2014.

The defense has argued that Pannir was a drug messenger and not a trafficker. According to the legislators of Malaysia, Pannir had helped the authorities of Singapore, which led to the arrest of a Malaysia recruiter for the drug operation.

Singapore authorities did not issue a substantial assistance certificate. If this certificate is issued to an accused person who faces a crime of capital after it has been determined that the person is a “messaging service” and provides substantive assistance, the court has the discretion of sentencing the person to life imprisonment with , when appropriate.

Singapore has a zero tolerance approach for drug trafficking, a deterrent element that the city status says that it has turned out that it has a fraction of drug use problems that harass other nations of Southeast Asia.

The calls to the Malaysian government to urge Singapore to grant Clemencia to Pannir have set up in recent days.