Singaporean woman faces execution in China as family launches last desperate appeal
Singaporean woman faces execution in China as family launches last desperate appeal The first Ismiraldha Abdullah knew that her mother might be in trouble was when she came home from school in Singapore to find her aunt sobbing, holding a letter in Chinese. It was October 2015 and the letter said Ismiraldha’s mother, Siti Aslinda Binte Junaidi, had been arrested in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on suspicion of drug trafficking, and could face the death penalty. Ismiraldha was shocked. She said she had had little idea what her mother was doing in China, only that she had gone there l...