SINGAPORE: When Nur Joanna Zulkepeli learnt that her captivity launch meeting had been pushed back by close to two weeks, she was quietly “quite happy”.
” Because if ( it’s ) deferred, I get to stay here and see my mum”, she said.
Joanna, 22, and her family, Juliana Baba, 52, are both individuals in Singapore’s even children’s prison, serving time in different cell for individual drug crimes.
But as with other individuals, who may receive two trips a fortnight from loved ones, they are simply permitted a 30-minute call and a 20-minute face-to-face program, or two 30-minute teleconferences.
They are not allowed to touch each other, not even during special events like one that CNA witnessed.
” Content day, Mummy! Happy birthday to you”, Joanna sang as she passed her mom a hand-drawn cards while seated across from her.