Throwing out socio-political blogger Alex Au Wai Pang’s appeal against his conviction for contempt of court, the Court of Appeal issued strong words against his attempt to pass off the content in his offending blog post as fair criticism. By…
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Singapore’s High Court on Thursday fined a prominent dissident blogger $8,000 for “scandalising” the city-state’s judiciary in an online commentary. Alex Au, 62, was punished over an October 5, 2013 post insinuating that hearing dates on a constitutional challenge to…
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Blogger Alex Au Wai Pang was on Thursday (Jan 22) found guilty of scandalising contempt over a blogpost in which he discussed challenges of the constitutionality of Section 377A. However, High Court judge Belinda Ang found that a second post…
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When the story first broke, what struck me most was the focus on lesbians. It is far more common in anti-LGBT speech for the reference to be either directed at gay males or framed with reference to gay male sex, at…
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