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Nigeria currently has the highest number of foreigners who have been sentenced to death in Malaysia.

A new report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, has revealed that 119 Nigerians are currently on death row in Malaysia.
The death penalty is currently retained as the punishment for 33 offences in the Asian country and is mandatory for 12 of these, according to the report, "Fatally flawed: Why Malaysia must abolish the death penalty".

As of February 2019, Amnesty reported, a total of 1,281 people were on death row in Malaysia, including 568 (44%) foreign nationals.

Of these foreign nationals, 21% are Nigerians, with others from Indonesia (16%), Iran (15%), India (10%), Philippines (8%) and Thailand (6%) and other countries.

73% of the total 1,281 inmates on death row were convicted for drug trafficking, while 25% were convicted for murder. The remaining were convicted for offences related to the use of firearms, robbery, and waging war against the King or Ruler of a State.

Amnesty's report showed that those on death row for drug trafficking were frequently convicted after they were found in possession of and transporting relatively small quantities of drugs without having committed or being involved in any form of violence.

They are also classified as people at the low-end of the drug chain (drug couriers) who often claim to have been tricked, lured, or forced into the drug trade.

In its report, Amnesty documented many violations of international human rights law and standards associated with the use of the death penalty in Malaysia.

"Our research found a pattern of unfair trials and secretive hangings that itself spoke volumes. From allegations of torture and other ill-treatment to an opaque pardons process, it's clear the death penalty is a stain on Malaysia's criminal justice system," said Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu, Executive Director of Amnesty International Malaysia.

In July 2018, the Malaysian government established a moratorium on executions, a temporary prohibition that means the convicts won't have their sentences carried out.

Even though the government previously committed to a full abolition of the death penalty, it is expected to soon table legislation in the Malaysian Parliament that'll remove the mandatory death penalty for only 11 offences.

Amnesty called on the government to completely abolish the death penalty for all crimes and review all cases where people have been sentenced to death, with a view to commuting the sentences.

"Malaysia has a golden chance to break with decades of cruelty and injustice, disproportionately inflicted on some of the most marginalised," said Kaliemuthu.


https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/malaysia-119-nigerians-on-death-row-for-drug-offences-others/q5chpwf

119!!!!!
Chai

They would get chieftaincy titles.

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Good for them.
Any Nigerian caught doing drugs abroad and convicted beyond reasonable doubt should be executed immediately. These few unscrupulous individuals are causing us so much problems that the integrity of ALL of us is now being questioned everywhere we go. Even our certificates are more likely to be rejected simply because we are Nigerians!

The poor state of the economy is no excuse for the level of drug trafficking Nigerians are engaging in.

India is not as rich as Nigeria in terms of Per Capita income yet there are 2 Nigerians for every 1 Indian on death row. This is despite the fact that India's population is at least 6 times ours. Also, India isn't too far from Malaysia while Nigeria is a world away and yet, Nigeria no carry last.

Nigerians are disproportionately represented which ever way you look at it.

Chai....e don red for them.

Some People do forget that there is no shortcut to success

Our society is heading to a pit.





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119 is a big number

Chai!!! Umu Africa

Release their names for research purposes

I'm Igbo but I don't support crime... If u goto Rome behave like Romans....

After making $ through drugs they come home and corrupt the mind of young ones and girls... Making them hate the hard working ones that's yet to see fruit of their labour.

Death will be painful for their families, but it was the choice they chose.
I bet they'd say * Get the money or die trying* before hiding the drugs to be smuggled in their stomach...

Greet satan for me shaa

This Is just terrible

One tribe

Death don kill some Nigerian men wey go hustle


Is this what hustling entails in foreign country

119 bad apples.

Time has come for us to start invoking curses and the wrath of the gods upon them for this disgrace.

o god

Let them learn their lessons in hard way in foreign land where they obey laws of the land to the latter.

Anybody who smuggled hard drugs to a country did not want her for good , he intended to destroy lives of the citizens just because he wanted to be rich. If he dies not a bad decision.

This is too much. It's not like they killed anyone. Meanwhile, the day Nigeria start sentencing people to death for corruption, is when I will know we are serious about developing the country.

119 ? We need to call 911

Eeyah!

Anywhere u go behave ur self,,,

Umu nne mmadu agwu n’ala malaysia biko nu

God have mercy

benn94:
Ok

If your brother was among them would you be okaying it?

Make I check wether this bros they there

My matric number back in school

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