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attacks on the judiciary will undermine public confidence in the institution.

Uh huh ...

 

 

 

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Not from us. But a good lesson to watch the posts as the gahmen is WATCHING

 

Singapore's Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) has issued a take-down letter and demanded an apology from several websites over posts which it said cast doubt on the judiciary's integrity.

 

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SINGAPORE: The Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) has issued take-down letters and demanded apologies from several websites over posts which it said cast doubt on the judiciary's integrity in a case involving a China national.

 

The websites and Facebook pages involved had suggested that a Singapore court had been lenient to Yuan Zhenghua, 31, who hijacked a taxi last year and crashed it into the driveway of Changi Airport's budget terminal, killing a Malaysian airport worker.

 

Yuan, a technician, was sentenced by a district court to 25 months in jail Monday.

 

Singaporeans took to Internet websites and Facebook pages to criticise the verdict, prompting the AGC to issue letters asking for an apology and that the postings be taken down.

 

A spokesman for the AGC said the online comments and postings had accused the court of bias in favour of the China national.

 

"These comments include allegations that the courts did not wish to offend the People's Republic of China, that Singaporeans would get heavier sentences in comparison, that the judge lacked integrity, and that leniency was shown," the spokesman said.

 

"These and similar comments pose a real risk that public confidence in the administration of justice would be undermined."

 

The spokesman added that the online comments ignored the fact that the court took into account Yuan's "psychotic disorder" in its decision.

 

The AGC also stressed that editors, administrators and moderators of websites have the responsibility to ensure that comments and posts on their sites are not contemptuous.

 

While the AGC did not identify the websites involved, the administrators of Facebook page "EDMW loves Singapore" put up an apology for committing an "act of contempt of court" in its posts about Yuan and said it had taken them down.

 

The government says attacks on the judiciary will undermine public confidence in the institution.

 

In July last year, the AGC also sent a letter to prominent Singaporean blogger Alex Au after he alleged in a post that the city-state's courts are biased in favour of the well-connected.

 

In 2010, a Singapore court jailed British author Alan Shadrake for six weeks for publishing a book critical of the city-state's administration of the death penalty.

 

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Watwheels

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This is not the first and won't be the last. Somebody got to step in sometime somehow.

 

If any keyboard warrior kenna caught and punished. No sympathy from me. IMO these ppl got nothing better to do. [rolleyes]

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A timely reminder to all please exercise discretion in what you post online.

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/religious--racial...-074716875.html

 

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Singapore may have made great strides since racially-driven violence marred its early years, but its people have yet to be completely free of racism, says Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam.

 

Speaking in a recent wide-ranging interview with Yahoo! Singapore, the minister shared his views on racism among Singaporeans, particularly in the aftermath of the incident involving former NTUC membership assistant director Amy Cheong early last month.

 

 

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Mustank

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liddat next time NDP can shout at the VIP section "idiot" boh salah right??? [:p][laugh]

 

cannot anyhow like that say [sweatdrop]

he never explain when you actually cross over from an opinon to a factual allegation [gossip]

yet again, even if he did explain, he does not have the final say because he is not the Court [idea]

the High Court has the final say? :huh:

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liddat next time NDP can shout at the VIP section "idiot" boh salah right??? [:p][laugh]

 

Different hor. K Sham is saying that in the context of individuals (including politicians [lipsrsealed] ), but if you say anything that hints of loss of judicial integrity, that's contempt of court or perversion of justice.

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Joseph22

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liddat next time NDP can shout at the VIP section "idiot" boh salah right??? [:p][laugh]

dont care what you want to shout. but its National day hor.. dont spoilt Singapore birthday even if you dont like the gahment. :ph34r:

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dont care what you want to shout. but its National day hor.. dont spoilt Singapore birthday even if you dont like the gahment. :ph34r:

 

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cannot anyhow like that say [sweatdrop]

he never explain when you actually cross over from an opinon to a factual allegation [gossip]

yet again, even if he did explain, he does not have the final say because he is not the Court [idea]

the High Court has the final say? :huh:

 

and he also didnt say in his capacity as Law Minister, what is the working relationship he has with the courts

 

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and he also didnt say in his capacity as Law Minister, what is the working relationship he has with the courts

 

obviously it was in his capacity as law minister

then in his capacity as lawyer meh?

for example:

 

Turning to defamation, a decidedly sensitive topic in Singapore in particular, Shanmugam explained that, as a rule of thumb, the government doesn
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Kb27

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There are some words you cannot say in this "democratic" country, even though you are right.

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