‘Save Vui Kong’: MPs, senators ink support
By Patrick Lee, Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: A total of 31 MPs and 11 senators have backed a campaign to stop the slated hanging of 22-year-old Sabahan, Yong Vui Kong, in Singapore. Also on the list was Perkasa boss Ibrahim Ali, and independent MPs Wee Chee Keong and Zulkifli Noordin.
According to the “Save Vui Kong Campaign” coordinators, 21 Pakatan MPs, including DAP supremo Karpal Singh, and eight MPs from Barisan Nasional, have inked their support.
“We’ve received good response from the public as well,” said coordinator Ngeow Chow Ying, who added that a total of 14,000 signatures had been collected.
She said the signatures would be compiled and submitted to Singapore President SR Nathan by Aug 22.
Ngeow also revealed that some had refused to support the campaign, saying that they did not wish to save a drug trafficker from the gallows.
“Vui Kong has become a life example for those who happen to be in a similar background as him and therefore we should give him a chance.
“He has taken the legal responsibility (by admitting to the crime). He’s just asking for clemency,” she said.
A product of a broken home, Yong left Sabah to sell illegal VCDs in the Peninsular. He later took up the offer to transport drugs into Singapore after his mother was purportedly struck ill.
Caught with 47 grammes of heroin in 2007, Yong was sentenced to death in the same year. His previous applications for clemency have been rejected. His final plea will be heard on Aug 26.
Malaysian Bar gives support too
The Malaysian Bar also got into the act today by appealing to the Singaporean government to exercise clemency on Yong.
“We encourage our colleagues at the Law Society of Singapore to continue to speak out against the use of the death penalty in Singapore,” said Malaysian Bar president Ragunath Kesavan in a statement today.
“The death penalty has no place in any society that values human rights, justice and mercy,” he said.
He also urged the Malaysian government to immediately abolish the death penalty.
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Don’t be dumb ! Wake Up !
He did the crime. Now he should pay the dues.
You should remembered the big money he could have made if he was not caught and the lives he would have destroyed through the sale of his drugs.
He is the one who decided to do the crime and hence should also accept his fate. He did it to himself. No one else !