THE Singapore High Court today granted stay of execution for Malaysian Pausi Jefridin and Singaporean Roslan Bakar pending their application for a judicial review of their death sentences.

Lawyer for Liberty N. Surendran informed The Malaysian Insight of the development.

The two men’s lawyer, M. Ravi said on Facebook that it cost SG$20,000 to file an appeal and that payment must be made by 1.45pm today.

The two were scheduled to be executed today.

Pausi, who is from Sabah, and Roslan, both with low IQs, have been found guilty of drug trafficking.

They were caught smuggling 96.07g of diamorphine and 76.37g of methamphetamine in 2010.

Singaporean journalist Kirsten Han said court documents showed Pausi has an IQ of 67.

“Pausi’s family, from Malaysia, will only have three days to see him before execution,” she tweeted.

Another Malaysian, Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, is also on death row.

Nagaenthran has been diagnosed with an intellectual disability and has an IQ of 69.

Nagaenthran filed two applications last month in an attempt to halt his death sentence.

The Singapore’s Court of Appeal is scheduled to deliver its decision at the end of the month. – February 16, 2022.