LFL: S’pore blatantly ignores obligation under disabled rights convention

Lawyers for Liberty has condemned the Singapore Court of Appeal’s decision today to dismiss the legal challenge by mentally disabled Malaysian citizen Nagaenthran Dharmalingam against his death sentence.

In a statement today, LFL chief coordinator Zaid Malek expressed shock over the court’s refusal to allow an independent psychiatric assessment of Nagaenthran’s current mental state or fitness to be executed.

"The court went as far as...