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Witness - Yong's Story
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Witness - Yong's Story

23 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Yong Vui Kong is a young Malaysian man sentenced to death in Singapore under a law that makes execution mandatory for anyone caught with more than 15 grams of heroin. Filmmakers Lynn Lee and James Leong follow his case through the eyes of his lawyer, Madasamy Ravi, who takes on the legal fight to have the sentence overturned, and through the eyes of Yong's family as they wait through appeals while he sits on death row in Changi Prison. The film gets close access to both sides of that fight: courtroom strategy sessions, family visits, and the strain of a case that drags on for years with an execution date always somewhere ahead of it. Singapore's drug laws leave judges no discretion once the weight threshold is crossed, and the film uses Yong's case to lay out exactly what that means in practice, for him and for the people around him. It stays with the family and legal team rather than widening into a general debate, keeping the death penalty argument tied to one specific, unresolved case.