Plea gathers momentum for Thai trans woman jailed in Malaysia for drugs
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Plea gathers momentum for Thai trans woman jailed in Malaysia for drugs

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Anti-death penalty advocates i Malaysia are calling on the public to petition the Sultan of Selangor to pardon a Thai quadriplegic trans woman serving a life sentence for drug trafficking, a case they say highlights the country’s uneven justice system.

Thanakorn Sinsanoi, 33, who goes by her maiden name Pau, has been jailed since 2013 after arriving in Malaysia with 1.3kg of methamphetamine in her luggage, a package she claimed was packed by a friend.

Pau’s sentence was commuted from the death penalty to 30 years in 2023 after Malaysia abolished the mandatory death penalty.

In prison, she contracted tuberculosis twice, the disease that eventually left her a quadriplegic—paralyzed from the neck down—and required to be rolled up on a hospital bed for her court appearances.

Her plight has sparked an outcry, with the public noting Pau’s severe disability and deteriorating health in prison and comparing her situation to former prime ministers Najib Razakwho recently had his corruption sentence halved by the pardon board, which is chaired by the king.

The Hayat legal group said that despite her lawyer’s plea for leniency due to her health situation, the court ruled that it cannot commute the sentence further because 30 years was the minimum allowed by law.

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