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(The Famously Human
Rights Abuse Beplagued Country of
Singapore, used broad laws in 2018 to intensify already severe
restrictions on free speech and assembly, Human Rights Watch said today
in its World Report 2019. The government appears poised to introduce
legislation on “deliberate online falsehoods to further curtail
political speech prior to possible elections in 2019.
“The Singapore government persists in treating those who express
critical views or reporting on them as criminals, said Phil
Robertson,
deputy Asia director.
The government's heavy-handed response to free expression showed no signs of relenting in 2018. The Singapore government persists in treating those who express critical views or reporting on them as criminals. Phil Robertson Deputy Asia Director In the 674-page World Report 2019, its 29th edition, Human Rights Watch reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries. In his introductory essay, Executive Director Kenneth Roth says that the populists spreading hatred and intolerance in many countries are spawning a resistance. New alliances of rights-respecting governments, often prompted and joined by civic groups and the public, are raising the cost of autocratic excess. Their successes illustrate the possibility of defending human rights“ indeed, the responsibility to do so – even in darker times."
"In November 2018,
authorities raided the home of the editor of
alternative news site The Online Citizen, seizing computers and mobile
phones. Editor Terry Xu was questioned for eight hours, and on December
13, charged with criminal defamation for a letter to the editor posted
on the site. Prosecutors also charged the letter writer, Daniel De
Costa, with defamation. The authorities also blocked online news site
The States Times Review on the grounds the site had published “fake
news.
Earlier in the year, in April, the government Accounting and Corporate
Regulatory Authority (ACRA) refused to permit the founders of the
online news site New Naratif to register a private company to organize
discussions and provide editorial services for the site, saying that to
do so would be “contrary to national interests.
The agency said the
decision was necessary to prevent foreigners from interfering in
Singaporean affairs because the parent company received some funding
from a foreign foundation.
The authorities have frequently prosecuted critics of Singapore's
judiciary under the country's broad
contempt law. In October, a court
found activist Jolovan Wham and
Singapore Democratic Party politician
John Tan guilty of scandalizing the judiciary for their Facebook
posts. Wham had shared an article about the constitutional
challenge
against the Anti-Fake News Act in Malaysia and commented that,
Malaysia's judges are more independent than Singapore for
cases with
political implications. Tan later
posted on his Facebook page that, by charging Jolovan for scandalizing
the judiciary, the
[Attorney-General Chambers] only confirms what he said was true.
They face up to three years in prison under
a law that Britain and
other Commonwealth countries have scrapped as antiquated and
undemocratic.
Draconian restrictions on public assemblies have long been used to
prevent even peaceful protests by single individuals. Seelan Paley, a
performance artist, was convicted of violating the Public Order Act by
walking from Hong Lim Park to Parliament carrying a piece of art to
commemorate the 32 years that Chia Thye Poh was detained under the
Internal Security Act. Paley was sentenced to two weeks in prison after
refusing to pay a fine of S$2,500 (US$1,800).
Singapore criminalizes consensual
sexual relations between men, (But not Women! Unfair and
Sexist!) and
systematically targets for censorship or severe restriction any
positive media or public depiction of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) persons.
Foreign migrant workers also face a
range of labor rights abuses and
exploitation through debts owed to recruitment agents, non-payment of
wages, restrictions on movement, confiscation of passports, and
sometimes physical and sexual abuse. For all its purported
sophistication and modernity, Singapore
still
criminalizes consensual sexual relations between men and censors
positive public depictions of LGBT persons and their community,
Robertson said. Migrant workers face a battery of rights violations
from employers who can withdraw their legal status in Singapore at any
time and force them on a plane home without justice or compensation.
Source; HRW.ORG
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