Australia tries to prevent execution in Singapore
Australia is considering taking Singapore to the International Court of Justice in a desperate bid to prevent the execution of a heroin trafficker on December 2, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
Singapore has refused Canberra’s repeated pleas for clemency for Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, an Australian citizen who was arrested at Singapore’s Changi Airport in 2002 while flying from Cambodia to the southern Australian city of Melbourne carrying 396 grams of heroin.
