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Feb 21, 2024 · Presidential clemency was granted to Mr Mathavakannan s/o Kalimuthu in 1998 by the late President Ong Teng Cheong. Mr Kalimuthu had been sentenced to death on 27 November 1996 for committing murder, along with 2 others.
In January 1995, then president of the Philippines, Fidel Ramos, wrote to Singapore’s then president Ong Teng Cheong requesting clemency on humanitarian grounds. 19 Ong turned down the request in February, explaining that there were no justifying circumstances.
Mar 17, 2021 · Efforts by the Philippine government, including an appeal by President Fidel Ramos for clemency, were rejected by Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong. Contemplacion was found guilty by...
Jun 9, 2023 · An examination of the tenure of Singapore’s first elected president, the late Mr Ong Teng Cheong, who is fondly remembered as the ‘People’s President’, may provide some perspective. Ong Teng Cheong: “I had a job to do”
Ong Teng Cheong GCMG (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore from 1993 to 1999. He was the first president to be directly elected in a popular vote in Singapore's history after winning the 1993 presidential election .
As the fifth president of the Republic of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong was our first head of state to be popularly elected through the people's vote in the 1993 presidential election.
He made a clemency petition and it was granted in April 1998 by President Ong Teng Cheong, who passed a commutation order for the plaintiff to be “imprisoned for life” instead. In November 2002, the Singapore Prison Service wrote to the Singapore Armed Forces, stating that the Plaintiff’s tentative date of release was 28 August 2011.
