Singapore Steps Up Drumbeat of Charges Against Critics
Singapore’s always-prickly Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, appears to be growing less and less tolerant of criticism, filing defamation charges against a prominent human rights defender, Leong Sze Hian (above), just two weeks after forcing the temporary closure of the city-state’s longest-running and most prominent independent news site, The Online Cit…
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