SINGAPORE - The chief editor of The Online Citizen (TOC) and a contributor to the sociopolitical website, who each got three weeks’ jail last year for defaming Cabinet members, had their sentences reduced to a fine by the High Court on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The chief editor of The Online Citizen and a contributor to the sociopolitical website, whofor defaming Cabinet members, had their sentences reduced to a fine by the High Court on Thursday.
De Costa had written a letter titled “PAP MP apologises to SDP” which he sent to TOC from the e-mail account of his friend, Mr Sim Wee Lee, on Sept 4, 2018. He signed off as “Willy Sum”, a name sometimes used by Mr Sim. The letter was taken down on Sept 18, 2018 after the Infocomm Media Development Authority directed Xu to do so.for making or publishing an imputation that would harm the reputation of members of the Cabinet.
The prosecution noted that the first sentence of the paragraph in question alleged that the “present PAP leadership severely lacks innovation, vision and the drive to take us into the next lap”, while the second sentence gave illustrations of the alleged shortcomings.
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