A SINGAPOREAN man who underwent sex change surgery before being convicted on drugs charges escaped caning after a court recognised the change in gender.
Preeta Nivashani Rechnam, 40, was jailed yesterday for seven years and three months for a second drugs offence, but she escaped caning as Singapore law spares women, and men over 50, from the punishment.
Applied with a rattan cane and dating back to British colonial rule, the punishment is typically imposed in robbery, drugs and some sex cases and is denounced as inhumane by rights groups.
The Straits Times newspaper said Rechnam had first been sentenced in 1998 to three strokes of the cane in addition to a jail sentence of five years after being caught using morphine. Full story...
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Preeta Nivashani Rechnam, 40, was jailed yesterday for seven years and three months for a second drugs offence, but she escaped caning as Singapore law spares women, and men over 50, from the punishment.
Applied with a rattan cane and dating back to British colonial rule, the punishment is typically imposed in robbery, drugs and some sex cases and is denounced as inhumane by rights groups.
The Straits Times newspaper said Rechnam had first been sentenced in 1998 to three strokes of the cane in addition to a jail sentence of five years after being caught using morphine. Full story...
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