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- A 45-year-old woman was hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking.
- It has been 20 years since the country last executed a woman.
- Singapore has hanged 15 people, including foreigners, for drug-related offences since March 2022.
Saridewi Binte Djamani was hanged on Friday after being convicted of trafficking "not less than 30.72 grams" of the drug in 2018, the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement.
The bureau said Djamani had been accorded "full due process under the law" and had access to legal counsel throughout the process.
Djamani's execution proceeded despite protests from human rights groups including Amnesty International, which argues Singapore's use of capital punishment for drug offences violates international law and does little to deter drug use.
Amnesty International said in a statement earlier this week:
In April, a group of United Nations experts described the rate of executions in Singapore for drug offences as "highly alarming" and called for an immediate moratorium after claims a 46-year-old ethnic Tamil citizen was hanged despite being denied adequate interpretation during police interrogations.
Singapore has hanged 15 people, including foreigners, for drug-related offences since March 2022, when it resumed executions after a hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, 57, was hanged for trafficking about 50 grams of heroin.
The city-state last executed a woman in 2004, when Yen May Woen, a 36-year-old hairdresser, was hanged for drug trafficking.
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Despite a reputation as a well-run business hub, Singapore's ultra-strict laws place it in the company of a handful of authoritarian states, including China and North Korea, that impose the death penalty for drug offences.
