Singapore

Singapore’s political environment remains overwhelmingly repressive, with serious restrictions on free expression, association, and peaceful assembly through overly broad criminal laws and regulations. In 2025, the authorities carried out the highest number of executions for drug-related offenses in over two decades. Recent legislative changes have also made it harder for death row prisoners to appeal their convictions, further undermining fair trial and due process rights in capital cases. The government aggressively enforces a sweeping “online falsehoods” law that permits government ministers to order the “correction” or removal of online content, which it routinely uses against anti-death penalty activists, government critics, and human rights groups. Migrant workers are excluded from a number of key labor rights protections, with visa rules giving employers unilateral power to cancel workers employment contracts and repatriate them at will, including to unsafe countries.