Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 12:53 PM MYT
Lawyer M Ravi at Singapore State Courts on December 16, 2020. TODAY pic
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SINGAPORE, Dec 16 Human rights lawyer M. Ravi was charged today with criminally defaming Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam in a Facebook post last month.
Ravi had claimed that fellow lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam, who briefly employed Ravi when he was suspended from practising law in 2015, had said Shanmugam “wields influence over Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon.”
In the November 6 Facebook post, he alleged that Thuraisingam had also said Shanmugam “calls the shot and controlls (sic) Sundaresh Menon.”
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A Singaporean convicted of drug trafficking and facing imminent execution by shooting in China, wrote to her daughter last month calling her sentence âunfairâ.
Siti Aslinda Junaidi, 35, was arrested in Shenzhen, China, six years ago for drug trafficking. She had been accompanying her boyfriend who was caught carrying the drugs.
In a letter to her 17-year-old daughter Ismiraldha last month, Aslinda told her daughter that her sentence was âunfairâ, Malaysian media website Malaysia Now wrote.
âI must fight for my right no matter how. I know itâs difficult for you to accept this and I got to do something for this,â wrote Aslinda.
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Singapore Lawyer M Ravi sought help from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Monday (Dec 14) regarding the case of a Singaporean convicted of drug trafficking and facing imminent execution by shooting in China.
In an update on Facebook, Mr Ravi wrote that his team from Carson Law Chambers has made frantic efforts in China to get a Chinese lawyer to represent the Singaporean, 35-year-old Azlinda.
“We have just served our legal notice on Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their immediate participation and cooperation
,” he added.
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In his letter to the MFA, Mr Ravi said Azlinda had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking and was currently appealing that her sentence be reviewed by the Guangdong High Court.