SINGAPORE: Minister for Communications and Information and Second Minister for Home Affairs Josephine Teo on Tuesday (May 30) rejected an application by an activist group to cancel or vary a correction direction issued to it under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). The
Tangaraju, a 46-year-old Singaporean, was hanged on Apr 26 after being convicted of abetting the trafficking of more than 1kg of cannabis.
“The conditions for issuing the correction direction are satisfied, and the application did not disclose any grounds to the contrary,” the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday . “After having carefully considered the application, the Minister for Communications and Information and Second Minister for Home Affairs has decided to reject it. TJC has been notified of the rejection.
Correction directions were also issued to activist Kirsten Han, lawyer M Ravi, The Online Citizen Asia and TOC co-founder Andrew Loh. In a statement earlier this month, MHA said their social media posts and articles contained false statements about Tangaraju's capital sentence, including being denied an interpreter during the recording of his statement and that he was later found to be not guilty.
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