Anti-death penalty appeal for Yong Vui Kong – Singapore

Source: Amnesty International Canada (from Singabloodypore)

Friends,

We have learned that Yong Vui Kong’s final appeal to Singapore’s President is expected to be heard with the coming week. It is, therefore, urgent that our appeals to him are sent before that decision is made.  I am urging those who have not yet written to send their appeals immediately.  See Urgent Action below.

In June of this year, Vui Kong’s brother wrote a letter of apology and a plea for clemency to President Nathan.  We now have permission to share with you translated excerpts of that letter:

Breaking Walls, Breaking Apartheid

Image from Al Jazeera/ sourced from AFP

To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian and foreign activists have destroyed parts of the Israel’s separation wall in a demonstration. Using only a lorry, they pulled down a two-metre cement block before being attacked by Israeli security forces with tear gas grenades.

According to the Stop the Wall Campaign website, a series of international events, under the banner, “Unite Against Apartheid” from 9 to 16 November, would be held to protest against the apartheid wall. In Australia, the groups, Australians for Palestine; and Women for Palestine would be picketing against Israel’s Jerusalem Quartet at farewell performances around the country.

Is the RSF press ranking flawed?

According to Cherian George in ‘Why RSF’s Press Freedom Index is flawed – and why it works’, the man argued that the organisation’s list of ranking by countries is methodologically and conceptually flawed.

Get-up fact sheet on asylum seeking

Extract from Get-Up – Australia & asylum seekers: The myths and the facts. Some facts on asylum-seeking for those who are still wedded to the idea that it is a form of illegal immigration…

Myth 5 – Boats are bringing terrorists to our shores

AI Canada – Support Dr Chee and colleagues facing charges

Source: Amnesty International Canada

Singapore: Canadian support for Dr. Chee and colleagues facing charges
Posted: 28 October 2008

SINGAPORE: Singapore opposition politician Chee Soon Juan (centre) stands along with supporters at a Singapore park designated by the government as a free-speech area in Singapore, 18 September 2006. Chee had entered the third day of a standoff with police after he was prevented from marching to the venue of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Singapore 16 September. Any protest of more than four people is deemed an illegal assembly in Singapore, a prosperous Asian financial hub that maintains strict controls on freedom of expression. Source: OSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images.