SINGAPORE: A former engineer with Singapore Technologies Kinetics went on trial on Wednesday for posting Facebook entries inciting violence.
36—year—old Gary Yue Mun Yew posted a doctored photograph of a Vietnamese soldier executing former Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, with a gun held to his head.
Yue had downloaded a photograph of a Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong guerilla, and replaced the face of the guerilla with that of Mr Wong’s.
The same picture was used as Yue’s Facebook profile pic, which Yue claimed he had changed after a week.
Yue also posted a link to a video clip depicting the assassination of former Egyptian president, Muhammad Anwar al—Sadat on the Facebook page of socio—political site The Temasek Review.
He followed up with a comment calling for a re—enactment during the 2010 National Day Parade.
The court was told Yue made the postings from his home at Marine Drive, between July and August 2010.
Yue claimed he did it out of frustration with work, and in response to online comments about national issues, including the escape of Jemaah Islamiah fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari.
His lawyers, Mr Sreenivasan and Mr S Balamurugan from Straits Law Practice, added that Yue had no intention to incite violence, nor was there any likelihood of violence being incited.
Yue, who has been terminated from his job after he was charged in August last year, has since written an apology letter to Mr Wong.
The verdict will delivered on 16 February.
— CNA/ck
36—year—old Gary Yue Mun Yew posted a doctored photograph of a Vietnamese soldier executing former Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng, with a gun held to his head.
Yue had downloaded a photograph of a Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong guerilla, and replaced the face of the guerilla with that of Mr Wong’s.
The same picture was used as Yue’s Facebook profile pic, which Yue claimed he had changed after a week.
Yue also posted a link to a video clip depicting the assassination of former Egyptian president, Muhammad Anwar al—Sadat on the Facebook page of socio—political site The Temasek Review.
He followed up with a comment calling for a re—enactment during the 2010 National Day Parade.
The court was told Yue made the postings from his home at Marine Drive, between July and August 2010.
Yue claimed he did it out of frustration with work, and in response to online comments about national issues, including the escape of Jemaah Islamiah fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari.
His lawyers, Mr Sreenivasan and Mr S Balamurugan from Straits Law Practice, added that Yue had no intention to incite violence, nor was there any likelihood of violence being incited.
Yue, who has been terminated from his job after he was charged in August last year, has since written an apology letter to Mr Wong.
The verdict will delivered on 16 February.
— CNA/ck
