“This week the Singapore government is taking on a 75-year-old British author for publishing a book arguing that the country’s secretive but mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking is unevenly applied against poor and marginalized defendants while the wealthy or well-connected are spared.” An article about the Alan Shadrake case. Mr Shadrake wrote “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock” and was represented by M. Ravi.