{"id":33105,"date":"2012-02-20T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33105"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:18:52","slug":"singapore-pm-demands-apology-from-dissident-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33105","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: PM demands apology from dissident website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship : Singapore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Singapore\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore&#8217;s<\/a> prime minister has <a title=\"AFP: Singapore PM demands apology from dissident website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gA3qWvdRX08MfLoW7BDGMXqD9HwA?docId=CNG.4a5b51014b9a1648aa98507f183af39a.741\" target=\"_blank\">demanded an apology<\/a> from a political website, following allegedly defamatory posts. In a letter to the editors of website\u00a0<a title=\"TR Emeritus: Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tremeritus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TR Emeritus<\/a>, the lawyer of\u00a0\u00a0Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong requested the apology, after posts on the website\u00a0alleged nepotism in the appointment of the prime minsters wife as head of a state-linked firm. The lawyer,\u00a0Davinder Singh,\u00a0said the article was &#8220;published maliciously and recklessly&#8221; and constituted &#8220;a very grave libel&#8221; against the prime minister.\u00a0He demanded that the editors take down the original article and subsequent comments and post an apology by 24 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s prime minister has demanded an apology from a political website, following allegedly defamatory posts. In a letter to the editors of website\u00a0TR Emeritus, the lawyer of\u00a0\u00a0Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong requested the apology, after posts on the website\u00a0alleged nepotism in the appointment of the prime minsters wife as head of a state-linked firm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[346,1554,165,727,7385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94583,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions\/94583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}