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🧵 A thread to share the speech (with some edits to fit Twitter limits) that I gave in Hong Lim Park yesterday at the protest against the #deathpenalty in #Singapore, with further references in [ ].
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Thank you all for coming down today, despite the rain and the damp and the humidity.
By showing up, you’ve demonstrated your opposition to state violence in all our names.
By showing up, you’ve demonstrated your opposition to state violence in all our names.
By showing up, you’re also showing the many family members and loved ones of people on death row that there are people who stand with them.
So heartened by the crowd today. #AbolishDeathPenalty
Just warming up with chanting! “This is a community not very used to protesting” so going to practice some more 😅
I can now say I have stood in a park in SINGAPORE in which people yelled “FUCK THE DEATH PENALTY!!!”
Three representatives from the families of death row immates in Spore have entered the Spore High Commission to present a memorandum. #AbolishDeathPenalty
Correction: The Singapore High Commission has not allowed for the representatives to enter the premises. Oraganisers are negotiating for more representatives to enter. HC maintains at 3 reps. #AbolishDeathPenalty
UPDATED: One representative from families of death row inmates in Singapore and Malaysia as well as Lam Chai Cheong from Geha Bodhi, and lawyer N Surendran entered to present a memorandum to the Singapore High Commissioner.
