The Latest Breaking News from Kirsten Han

The announcement of the scheduled Friday execution of a woman comes as human rights groups say Singapore is out of step with the global trend of more countries moving away from capital punishment.

Singapore has executed a man for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman on Friday

Activists across Asia are concerned about the social media platform’s future under the billionaire Tesla founder.

If the Singapore government really prioritized the well-being of people in Singapore, they wouldn’t be wasting time and money trying to get Richard Branson over for a “debate.”

New version of criminal code says execution should be considered a ‘last resort’ but could delayed sentence be abusive?

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Singapore hanged a convicted drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency.

When fighting against the cold machinery of death, we must all the more cling on to empathy and care for one another.

In Singapore, the fate of two Malaysian men on death row has sparked local mobilisation and attracted international attention. On April 25th, Nagaenthran Dharmalingam was hanged. With an IQ of 69, which is recognized as a disability, his execution could amount to a breach of international law. The next day,…