TOC editor-in-chief Terry Xu has filed a judicial review application against the Singapore Attorney-General, Lucien Wong for seeking a contempt of court committal order over the former’s republication of a blog post.
In a statement from his law firm Carson Law Chambers on Wednesday (8 Sep), Mr Xu’s counsel Lim Tean said that the Attorney-General’s application “is both unlawful and irrational”, as such an application was only made against Mr Xu and not against the original author of the blog post.
This is despite the author — formerly a Singapore permanent resident and is now living in Australia — having “openly declared that she is willing to be questioned” by the Singapore authorities on the post.
“However, to date, neither the police nor the Attorney-General’s Chambers have contacted (her) to question her or investigate her on her Open Letter. The Open Letter remains on her blog. She had also published the Open Letter on her Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn,” the statement read.
“The authorities did not take any steps to question (her) on her intentions and what she meant to convey when she penned the Open Letter, and yet they saw it fit to prosecute Terry for contempt because he republished it.”
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In a statement from his law firm Carson Law Chambers on Wednesday (8 Sep), Mr Xu’s counsel Lim Tean said that the Attorney-General’s application “is both unlawful and irrational”, as such an application was only made against Mr Xu and not against the original author of the blog post.
This is despite the author — formerly a Singapore permanent resident and is now living in Australia — having “openly declared that she is willing to be questioned” by the Singapore authorities on the post.
“However, to date, neither the police nor the Attorney-General’s Chambers have contacted (her) to question her or investigate her on her Open Letter. The Open Letter remains on her blog. She had also published the Open Letter on her Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn,” the statement read.
“The authorities did not take any steps to question (her) on her intentions and what she meant to convey when she penned the Open Letter, and yet they saw it fit to prosecute Terry for contempt because he republished it.”
More at https://tinyurI.com/tkevebv9
