A group comprising 20 civil society organisations has criticised Singapore’s Court of Appeal for ordering Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam’s lawyers to personally pay the cost of S$20,000 (RM64,000) to the country’s Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

In a statement, they said the AGC had initially sought S$40,000 from the lawyers in question, M Ravi and Violet Netto, for setting out to delay Nagaenthran’s execution by filing unmeritorious applications.

This was said to have resulted in the...