SINGAPORE — Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan are seeking to have their defamation suits against Mr Lee Hsien Yang heard in Singapore, according to affidavits filed.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan are seeking to have their defamation suits against Mr Lee Hsien Yang heard in Singapore, according to affidavits filed.
The defamation suits arise from comments Mr Lee made on his Facebook page in July this year relating to Mr Shanmugam and Dr Balakrishnan'sIn a Facebook post on July 27, Mr Shanmugam said Mr Lee had accused him and Dr Balakrishnan of"acting corruptly and for personal gain by having Singapore Land Authority give us preferential treatment by illegally felling trees without approval, and also having SLA pay for renovations to 26 and 31 Ridout Road".
On Aug 28, the two ministers applied to serve court papers to Mr Lee via Facebook Messenger on the grounds that it is impractical to serve papers to him personally in the United Kingdom. The ministers then filed separate defamation suits against him in Singapore's High Court on Aug 2. On the same day, lawyers sent a letter to Mr Lee via Facebook Messenger, informing Mr Lee that defamation proceedings had commenced against him in the Singapore courts.
The Statements of Claim did not specify the amount of damages sought. Both are also seeking an injunction to restrain Mr Lee from publishing or disseminating the defamatory allegations, costs and other reliefs. They noted that there had been"substantial publication and republication" of the offending words in Singapore, where various people in Singapore would have read them.
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