Singapore: censorship city

November 30th, 2009

Ben Bland is the latest journalist to be barred from working in Singapore. Here, he explains the city state’s stranglehold on free expression
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Singapore: WSJ charged with contempt

March 16th, 2009

A senior editor of the Wall Street Journal is being taken to court by the Singapore government. (more…)

Singapore: magazine guilty of defaming leaders

September 24th, 2008

The Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) and it’s editor Hugo Restall have been found guilty of defaming Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsein Loong, and his father Lee Kuan Yew. The summary judgement was made without the case going to trial, in compliance with the wishes of the Lees. Read more here (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7632830 NULL.stm)

Blogging: a hazardous business

June 11th, 2008

Online criticism of politicians is not tolerated in Singapore, writes David Jardine

Singapore, long known for what is sometimes described as ‘soft authoritarianism’ is a dangerous place in which to post dissident blogs. The latest person to discover this is Gopalan Nair, a US citizen of Singaporean origin.

Nair, in his Singaporean days a lawyer and activist for the opposition Workers’ Party, is the latest to fall foul of Minister Mentor (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Minister_Mentor) Lee Kuan Yew’s penchant for suing his critics in an effort to both bankrupt them and silence them. Now an immigration lawyer in California, Nair claims on his blog Singapore Dissident (http://singaporedissident NULL.blogspot NULL.com/) that he was ‘harassed and persecuted by Lee’ and this was his reason for taking up citizenship in the USA.
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