KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has written to his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong seeking leniency in the case of a Malaysian scheduled to be hanged for drug trafficking, it was learned today.
Bernama understands that Ismail Sabri has asked the Singaporean government to look into staying the execution, and seeks a fresh application for presidential clemency in the case of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam.
Nagaenthran, 33, claimed by his lawyers to be intellectually disabled, was arrested by Singaporean authorities on April 22, 2009, and charged with smuggling 42.72g of diamorphine. He was sentenced to death by the Singapore High Court on November 22, 2010.
The process of appeal went through to the final stage, and his application for presidential clemency was rejected on June 1, 2020.
The execution is scheduled to be carried out on November 10. – Bernama, November 7, 2021
