22/07/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European External Action Service (EEAS) condemned, on Friday 22 July, the execution in Singapore of Nazeri bin Lajim for a drug-related offence. “The European Union strongly opposes the death penalty at all times and in all circumstances. It is a cruel and inhumane punishment, which fails to act as a deterrent to crime and represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity”, the EEAS said in a statement. Nazeri bin Lajim’s execution is the fifth since the beginning of 2022 and the third since the beginning of July in Singapore. The EEAS calls on Singapore’s government to “urgently commute the sentences of prisoners currently on death row to non-capital punishments” and to institute a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its ultimate abolition. (TM)