SINGAPORE – Activist group Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) has been issued a correction order over statements made concerning the legal processes for prisoners awaiting capital punishment and the prosecution of drug trafficking charges in relation to Mohammad Azwan Bohari.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Oct 5 said it has instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) Office to issue correction directions to TJC and one Kokila Annamalai; and for a targeted correction direction to be issued to TikTok Pte Ltd.
The false claims were made in a TJC article published on its website on Oct 2, and on the group’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts the same day.
Kokila posted the claims on her Facebook page on Oct 2, and on X the next day.
MHA said they had falsely claimed that the Government schedules and stays executions arbitrarily and without regard for due legal process, and that the State does not bear the legal burden of proving a drug trafficking charge against the accused person. “An execution will only be scheduled when a prisoner has exhausted all rights of appeal and the clemency process in relation to his or her conviction and sentence,” said the ministry.
Azwan was convicted and sentenced to five years’ jail and five strokes of the cane for trafficking methamphetamine and diamorphine, and for consumption of methamphetamine and morphine, and possession of cannabis, cannabinol derivatives and diamorphine in 2009.
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