Published on: Friday, July 30, 2010 |
Tawau: The district has become the second after Sandakan to garner signatures in support of a petition to have the death sentence on Sabahan, Yong Vui Kong, for drug trafficking in Singapore to be reduced to life imprisonment.
Tawau MP Datuk Chua Soon Bui, in a statement Thursday, said there were many requests for a similar campaign here.
The campaign to garner signatures in support of Yong began at his hometown (Sandakan), themed "Save Vui Kong," and has collected 100,000 signatories nationwide to seek clemency from the President of the republic.
Yong was arrested on June 13, 2007 in Singapore when he was then only 18 years old for trafficking 47.27gm of diamorphine.
"We are gathering signatures to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment based on humanitarian grounds," Chua told a press conference here.
She explained that Yong's case came to being after Yong's counsel M. Ravi made an appeal to Malaysia over the case.
She said a number of people in the district had started the task to gather signatures, adding she herself would conduct her own rounds for the same purpose.
Meanwhile, those interested to support the campaign can endorse a petition to Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan at http://www.petitiononline.com/Save VK/petition.html.
Printable petitions and signature forms can be obtained at http://www.box.net/shared/kl6tgf5ss (English), http://www.box.net/shared/ibce9v8kcd (Mandarin) and http://www.box.net/shared/daqymy6vtu (Malay).
