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Ravi Madasamy (Tamil: ரவி மாடசாமி), better known as M Ravi, is a Singaporean former human rights lawyer and activist. Known for his work as a cause lawyer, he has served as counsel in multiple high-profile court cases in Singapore, many of which have become leading cases in Singaporean constitutional law and Singapore's approach toward capital punishment and LGBT rights.[1]
Ravi was called to the bar in 1996 and began to practise law in Singapore.[5] Initially having a general practice, Ravi was approached by opposition politician J. B. Jeyaretnam in 2003 to defend Vignes Mourthi, an inmate on death row for smuggling heroin into Singapore.[6][7] The case was Ravi's first capital punishment case and marked his transition into specialising in such cases after six years of practice.[5]
In 2004, Ravi represented Shanmugam s/o Murugesu, a taxi driver sentenced to death for smuggling cannabis, in Public Prosecutor v Shanmugam s/o Murugesu. After an unsuccessful appeal, Ravi led a public campaign to petition S. R. Nathan, the President of Singapore, to pardon Shanmugam, organising events protesting against the death penalty and Shanmugam's execution.[8][9] President S. R. Nathan ultimately did not issue a pardon, and Shanmugam was subsequently hanged.[10] In the same year, Ravi represented a number of political protestors in Chee Siok Chin v Minister for Home Affairs. In 2006, Ravi also defended Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, a Nigerian sentenced to death for drug trafficking.
Cause lawyering (2006–2021)
In 2008, Ravi represented opposition politician Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin in a defamation lawsuit against them by Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, and Lee's father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.[11]Reuters and The New York Times noted that the waging of lawsuits by Singaporean political leaders have been criticised as attempts to "cripple opposition politicians".[12][13][14] Ravi later defended other opposition politicians and dissidents in lawsuits against them by politicians from the ruling party. These included Roy Ngerng, who was sued by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for defamation;[15] Daniel de Costa, who was charged with criminal defamation for op-eds written on members of the Cabinet of Singapore;[16] and John Tan, who applied for a declaration that his contempt of court conviction did not disqualify him from standing for elections.[17]
In 2011, Ravi launched a constitutional challenge in the High Court after his client, Tan Eng Hong, was arrested and charged under Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalises gay sex. Tan was charged under Section 377A in 2010, despite the Singapore government stating in parliament that they would no longer prosecute citizens under the law. After years of proceedings, the Court of Appeal ruled that Section 377A was not unconstitutional. The case was described by The Guardian as a "milestone in the struggle against Section 377A".[18][19] In the same year, Ravi represented British writer Alan Shadrake in Shadrake v Attorney-General after Shadrake was charged with and convicted of scandalising the Singapore judicial system.[20][21][22] Another of constitutional law case Ravi took up was Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v Attorney-General, which involved Vellama d/o Marie Muthu, a cleaner, bringing a lawsuit against the Singapore government for not holding a by-election after opposition member of parliament Yaw Shin Leong was expelled from the Workers' Party and consequently lost his parliamentary seat.[23][24]
From 2009 to 2015, Ravi represented Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking. The landmark case raised legal issues concerning human rights, including the constitutionality of judicial caning, as well as the reviewability of the clemency process and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.[25][26] After six years of hearings, the Singapore government made changes to the laws on the death penalty for drug trafficking. During a re-sentencing trial in the High Court, Ravi successfully appealed for Yong to have his death sentence commuted to a lower sentence of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 20 years, as well as 15 strokes of the cane.[27][28] Ravi later appealed against the caning sentence, arguing that it was unconstitutional, prejudicial, and a form of torture. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, which Ravi described as "[bringing Singapore] back to the Middle Ages".[29]
Shortly after, Ravi successfully reopened the case of death row inmate Cheong Chun Yin, who also had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane under the new laws on capital punishment. Ravi later acted for the death row inmates Norasharee Gous (who was later executed in 2022) and Gobi Avedian, who were the second and third cases in Singapore's legal history which the Court of Appeal had agreed to reopen and review. He was successful in Gobi's appeal, which resulted in Gobi's sentence reduced to 15 years' jail and ten strokes of the cane, marking the second time in Singapore's legal history in which a death row inmate was spared on appeal to the Court of Appeal despite the exhaustion of all avenues of appeal.[30]
Private practice, cost orders, and suspension (2015–2024)
In 2015, after Ravi's psychiatrist diagnosed Ravi as being hypomanic and stated that Ravi's hypomania created risk of errors of judgment, erratic and abnormal behaviour and emotional outbursts, the Law Society of Singapore suspended Ravi from practising law until he submitted to a medical examination by his psychiatrist or a certified consultant psychiatrist.[31]
In 2019, Ravi criticised prosecutors and judges in Singapore for a lack of impartiality. He later apologised and withdrew the statements. The disciplinary tribunal of the Law Society later found that Ravi should be fined at least S$10,000, finding him guilty of two charges of misconduct under the Legal Profession Act.[32]
In October 2020, Ravi alleged that there was a "miscarriage of justice" and that prosecutors were "wrongdoers" and had been "overzealous" in their prosecution of Gobi Avedian. A month later, he filed a civil suit on Gobi's behalf against a number of prosecutors, alleging that they had abused their powers and acted in bad faith. The Attorney-General's Chambers disputed Ravi's claims and filed a disciplinary complaint to the Law Society for possible professional misconduct.[33] The Law Society's disciplinary tribunal found Ravi innocent of the first charge but guilty of three other charges. The Attorney-General's Chambers appealed the decision to the High Court on the first charge, seeking a guilty verdict on the charge, but the court affirmed the tribunal's decision and dismissed the appeal.[34] The Law Society appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which, on 22 March 2023, found Ravi guilty of misconduct and suspended him from practice for five years.[35] In response to the judgment, a number of international non-governmental organisations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Union Internationale des Avocats criticised Ravi's suspension on the grounds of infringing upon his freedom of expression.[36][37][38][39]
On 16 December 2020, Ravi was charged with criminal defamation after he published a post on his Facebook page alleging that Minister for LawK. Shanmugam "controls" Chief JusticeSundaresh Menon. On 3 March 2021, the Attorney-General's Chambers issued a warning to Ravi in lieu of continuing the criminal proceedings, after he deleted the post, apologised, and undertook not to repeat the allegations.[40]
On 14 May 2021, the Court of Appeal ordered Ravi to pay S$5,000 to the prosecution after they found that he had acted improperly in making an "unmeritorious" bid to reopen the case of convicted drug trafficker Syed Suhail Syed Zin, whom Ravi had represented pro bono. The court said that Ravi had brought an application without any real basis, misrepresented certain facts in his affidavit, and made baseless allegations against Syed Suhail's former lawyer without giving him a chance to respond.[41] In response, the International Bar Association and International Committee of Jurists condemned the courts' decision as a "troubling instance where the courts appear to have adopted an overly expansive and impermissible interpretation of what constitutes 'lack of merit'".[42] Former Malaysian member of parliament N. Surendran criticised the move, calling the cost order an example of "persecution".[43] The International Committee of Jurists, Amnesty International, and Civicus have described the Singapore government's actions against Ravi as harassment of human rights lawyers.[44][45]
In May 2024, Ravi was disbarred by the Court of Three Judges and would not continue his legal practice.[46]
Since 2019, Ravi has been the founding director of M Ravi Law, a firm with offices across Southeast Asia.[47]
Impact
As a lawyer, Ravi is known for his aggressive trial advocacy, having been described by Asia Sentinel as "perhaps Singapore's most prominent defence lawyer".[48]Human Rights Watch has described Ravi's work as having made "Singapore a better, more humane place".[49]Al Jazeera has described Ravi as "perhaps Singapore's most vocal anti-death penalty advocate".[50] Mark Findlay, a law professor at the Singapore Management University, describes Ravi as a "respected human rights advocate".[51] George Baylon Radics, a lecturer at the National University of Singapore, writes in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review that "Ravi [is] one of Singapore's most preeminent human rights attorneys... a staunch lawyer for social change."[52] Jothie Rajah, writing in an article published in the Wisconsin International Law Journal, states that:[53]
Ravi's impact as a cause lawyer has undoubtedly had some effect on the way the Singapore government has approached death penalty cases... [T]he visibility and presence of Ravi as a cause lawyer, the exception to the Singapore general rule, in some way created the conditions of possibility for other lawyers to step up and play the role of cause lawyer... It may well be that Ravi is the only lawyer in Singapore who can, at the present time, justifiably lay claim to being called a cause lawyer.
In 2019, Ravi began representing Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a Malaysian citizen sentenced to death for smuggling drugs into Singapore. On appeal, Ravi argued that Nagaenthran was intellectually disabled, an argument that was dismissed. The case drew the attention of international activists,[54][55] including Richard Branson, who criticised the court's decision and Singapore's use of the death penalty.[56] Branson's activism led Minister for Law K. Shanmugam to publicly challenge Branson to a live debate on the death penalty, which Branson declined. In Branson's response, he described Ravi as "courageous".[57]
On 2 November 2023, Ravi was awarded the 2023 IBA Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights by the International Bar Association for his work on LGBT rights and the death penalty.[58]
Activism and political career
Ravi is an activist for death penalty abolishment and LGBT rights. After the Court of Appeal dismissed Malaysian citizen Yong Vui Kong's appeal against his death sentence for drug trafficking, Ravi lobbied Malaysian politicians and launched an activist movement in Singapore to appeal to President of SingaporeS. R. Nathan for clemency. Although the movement managed to garner over 100,000 signatures in a petition, they were ultimately unsuccessful in obtaining presidential clemency for Yong.[50] When Kho Jabing, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to death in 2016, Ravi, in the capacity of an activist, applied for a motion in-person to stall the execution despite not having represented Kho in the case. [59]
In 2014, Ravi was awarded the Asia Pink Award, an LGBT rights advocacy prize by Element Magazine, for his pro-bono work in challenging the legality of Section 377A.[60][61]
In October 2023, police reports were made against Ravi and Iris Koh after they allegedly published multiple social posts during the cooling-off period for the 2023 Singaporean presidential election.[62]
In November 2017, whilst on a manic episode, Ravi broke into Eugene Thuraisingam's law firm, where he had previously worked, and assaulted Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss and another lawyer. He was sentenced to mandatory psychiatric treatment for the attacks and trespass.[70][63]
In July 2023, Ravi was charged with assault and disorderly behaviour in public for allegedly slapping a man and shouting at Yio Chu Kang MRT station.[71][72] In September 2023, Ravi was charged for voluntarily causing hurt, disorderly behaviour in public, and harassment, after allegedly slapping a woman in Sri Mariamman Temple and verbally harassing two other people. He is currently pending trial for these charges.[73]
On 8 November 2023, Ravi was sentenced to 21 days of imprisonment for contempt of court. In the judgment, the High Court ruled that although Ravi had a hypomanic episode when he made the contemptuous statement, his bipolar disorder would not be greatly considered in mitigation. The trial judge Hoo Sheau Peng decided that Ravi's condition did not materially affect his decision-making ability, and found that he had not been compliant with his medication regime.[74]
^"Hougang By-election Judgment: A Victory for All", Al-Mizan: An Official Publication of the Association of Muslim Lawyers, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 11–14 at 14, July 2013.
^"About Us". MRAVILaw. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
^"Singapore Justice in the Dock Indeed". Asia Sentinel. Hong Kong. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2018. Ravi has an aggressive and somewhat discursive courtroom style that can yield dividends.
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