KUALA LUMPUR: The Singapore High Court has granted an interim stay of execution for Malaysian Pausi Jefridin and Singaporean Roslan Bakar, pending the filing of an appeal.
Lawyers for Liberty in a tweet said an SGD20,000 security of costs, however, would need to be furnished by 1.45pm today.
Both Pausi and Roslan had been convicted of drug trafficking in the republic in 2010 and are scheduled to be hanged today.
Pausi is intellectually disabled, having been medically assessed to have an IQ level of 67.
Many groups had appealed to Singapore to show clemency on Pausi.
Previously, the Singapore courts had decided that his intellectual capacity was not diminished and that he was fully cognisant of his actions and fully appreciated their legal consequences.
As such, there was no reason to disturb the finding of guilt and the imposition of the death penalty.