A JOBLESS man allegedly posted a video clip of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s assassination to the Facebook page of socio-political website Temasek Review, calling for such an event to be re-enacted here.
Gary Yue Mun Yew, 36, has also been accused of posting, on his own Facebook page last year, a doctored photograph of a Vietnamese soldier holding a gun to the head of then Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, whose head had been superimposed onto the original image.
Yue, who allegedly committed the offences in his Marine Parade home, is due back in court on Thursday.
Under the law, whoever is convicted of making or communicating an electronic record containing an incitement to violence shall be punished with up to five years’ jail, a fine or both.
With his posting of the video clip of the assassination, Yue had included an accompanying comment that “we should re-enact a live version of this on our own grand-stand during our national’s (sic) parade”.
The parallel was that Mr Sadat was shot to death by Islamic fundamentalists who stormed a parade route in Cairo on Oct 16, 1981.
In the doctored photograph that is the subject of the other charge, Yue allegedly also digitally created the logo of the ruling People’s Action Party on the chest of the individual on whom Mr Wong’s head had been superimposed.
He is out on police bail.
In April this year, police arrested a 32-year-old man who threatened to set alight his voting slip for the May 7 General Election, and then put it into a ballot box.
The suspect, who was released on police bail, allegedly posted his comments on the popular fuckwarezone forum on March 5.