23. The British author, Alan Shadrake is today facing a possible prison sentence after a court in Singapore convicted him of challenging the integrity of the city state’s judiciary in a book criticizing its use of the death penalty. Shadrake faces a custodial sentence or a fine – or both – for contempt of court when Singapore’s high court sentences him next week. The Singapore constitution does not specify a maximum penalty for the crime, according to reports, although prosecutors are reported to have demanded a prison sentence of between three and six months and an unspecified fine. The judge, Quentin Loh, said he was giving 75-year-old Shadrake “a final opportunity to make amends.” The author, who has refused to apologize, said after the ruling that he would “work out how to do this and satisfy the court.” The case was brought in response to Shadrake’s book, “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore’s Justice in the Dock”, which accuses courts of bowing to diplomatic and economic pressure in deciding how to dispense justice. It also accuses them of favoring the wealthy and abusing the law to suppress political opponents. The book includes a profile of a former chief executioner and interviews with human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers. According to Amnesty International, Singapore, with a population of five million, has one of the world’s highest per capita execution rates, having put more than 400 people to death over the past two decades.In his book, Shadrake suggests that in Singapore...

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23. The British author, Alan Shadrake is today facing a possible prison sentence after a court in Singapore convicted him of challenging the integrity of the city state’s judiciary in a book criticizing its use of the death penalty. Shadrake faces a custodial sentence or a fine – or both – for contempt of court when Singapore’s high court sentences him next week.    The Singapore constitution does not specify a maximum penalty for the crime, according to reports, although prosecutors are reported to have demanded a prison sentence of between three and six months and an unspecified fine.  The judge, Quentin Loh, said he was giving 75-year-old Shadrake “a final opportunity to make amends.” The author, who has refused to apologize, said after the ruling that he would “work out how to do this and satisfy the court.”  The case was brought in response to Shadrake’s book, “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore’s Justice in the Dock”, which accuses courts of bowing to diplomatic and economic pressure in deciding how to dispense justice. It also accuses them of favoring the wealthy and abusing the law to suppress political opponents. The book includes a profile of a former chief executioner and interviews with human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers.  According to Amnesty International, Singapore, with a population of five million, has one of the world’s highest per capita execution rates, having put more than 400 people to death over the past two decades.In his book, Shadrake suggests that in Singapore...

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Human rights activists are targeted by police.

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Lawyers are generally opposed to the executions.

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Some of the executions are politically motivated.

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The executions have no effect on the crime rate.

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